Downloading authorized data from dbGAP leads to a "looped" message

Question

[Hussein_95]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to download authorized dbGAP data. My PI gave me the .ngc key and the necessary kart file. I used this as a guide to configure vdb-config: https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools/wiki/05.-Toolkit-Configuration

I then tried to use prefetch to download the data:

/path/to/sratool/bin/prefetch --ngc /path/to/ngcfile/.ngc /path/to/kartfile/.kart -O ./ -X 800g

However, I get the as an output the following message repeatdly:

Current preference is set to retrieve SRA Normalized Format files with full base quality scores

This just keeps going and going, without any data being downloaded.

Has anyone had a similar experience?

[Debora]

Did you solve this issue?, I'm having the same problem