Download folder from snapshot

Why is there no option to download snapshots? I can view a single file, or restore a folder, but i cannot download folders.

Restoring changes the libraries history. This is not what I want or can do. I don’t want any clients to start synchronizing anything. I don’t want to change the library. I want a separate copy of an older version of a folder of the library.

I seems like such a trivial feature, all the data is obviously there and seafile can already provide downloads of the current version of folders. Why is this feature missing? Is there a workaround?

There is no such a feature yet. We will record such a feature request. Currently, in the snapshot view, you can download individual files or restore a folder, but downloading an entire folder as an archive directly from a snapshot is not supported.