Can't import directory in filecoin lotus node

Question

I am running a lotus client, but when I run:

lotus client import <path/to/directory>

I get:

ERROR: failed to import file using unixfs: failed to import file to store to compute root: read /home/patrick_alphachain_io/code/unstoppable-ui/unstoppable-ui-static-export: is a directory

Can we not upload directories like we can with IPFS? Is there a way to just upload an IPFS CID?

Answer 1

You can wrap your folder into a .car file and upload that to filecoin.

You could use a tool like ipfs-car.

yarn ipfs-car --pack /path/to/directory/ --output my-output.car

And then upload that to filecoin

lotus client import --car my-output.car