Downloading data assets from a project

You can download data assets from a project to your local system.

Important: Take care when you download assets. Collaborators can upload any type of file into a project, including files that have malware or other types of malicious code.
Required permissions
You must have the Editor or Admin role in the project to download an asset.
Restrictions
Assets can contain up to 5000 columns.
If your project is marked as sensitive, you can't download data assets or connected data assets from the project.
You can’t download connected data assets from an IBM Cloud Object Storage connection that uses secrets from a vault.

Download a data asset

To download a data asset that is in the project's storage, select Download from the ACTION menu next to the asset name.

For an alternate method of downloading data assets for a project, select Files in the Data side panel. Checkmark the data asset and select Download from the ACTION menu in the side panel.

Download a connected data asset

To download a connected data asset, use Data Refinery to run a job that saves the file as the output of a Data Refinery flow. The output of the Data Refinery flow is a new CSV file in the project’s storage.

  1. Click the asset name to open it.
  2. Click Prepare data.
  3. From the Jobs menu, click Save and create a job. Enter a job name and click Create and Run.
  4. Go back to the Assets page. Refresh the page. By default, the downloadable asset is named table-name_shaped.csv.
  5. Choose Download from the ACTION menu next to the asset name.

You can’t download connected data assets from a Cloud Object Storage connection that uses secrets from a vault.

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Parent topic: Adding data to a project