Downloading files from google colab

Based on what I've seen and experienced, the best way is to store and retrieve your data from your drive account. Actually your question is a bit unclear but first I say, try to use the following command to see the current files in your directory, although I guess each 12 hours they all would be deleted automatically.

Anyway I recommend the following instructions:

Use the following code for having permission to access to your drive account:

Use the following code to get the id of contents in your drive:

Put the id of the desired file, e.g. a typical text file, in the content of the following dictionary with id key:

Till now you have copied the text file, then you have to write it in your Colab disk using the following code:

For more information about transferring different data formats there are more explanations in the notebook provided with Colab.