Unfortunately we have closed our business. I want to cancel my Azure subscription, but before I do that, I need to download all our files for storage. How can I do this?

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Unfortunately we have closed our business. I want to cancel my Azure subscription, but before I do that, I need to download all our files for storage. How can I do this?

Buzz Beyer 20

Unfortunately we have closed our business, I want to cancel my Azure subscription, but before I do that, I need to download all our files for storage. How can I do this?

Buzz Beyer 20 Reputation points

2025-04-02T11:17:49.19+00:00

Thank you very much, Vinod.

I am trying to use Storage Explorer.

What is my display name and Connection String, or where do I find these?
Vinod Kumar Reddy Chilupuri 4,185 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-04-02T12:27:44.6+00:00
Hi Buzz Beyer,

Display Name:
The display name is a user-friendly name for your storage account. In Storage Explorer, you can set this name to easily identify your storage account. You can choose any name that helps you recognize the storage account, so you can name it something like "My Azure Storage".**
Connection String:
You can find your connection string in the Azure portal. Here’s how:

Go to your storage account in the Azure portal.

under Security + networking > Access keys.

You will see the connection strings listed there. You can copy one of the connection strings to use in Storage Explorer.

Hope the above suggestion helps! Please let us know do you have any further queries.

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Buzz Beyer 20 Reputation points

2025-04-02T11:17:49.19+00:00

Thank you very much, Vinod.

I am trying to use Storage Explorer.

What is my display name and Connection String, or where do I find these?
Vinod Kumar Reddy Chilupuri 4,185 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-04-02T12:27:44.6+00:00

Hi Buzz Beyer,

Display Name:
The display name is a user-friendly name for your storage account. In Storage Explorer, you can set this name to easily identify your storage account. You can choose any name that helps you recognize the storage account, so you can name it something like "My Azure Storage".**
Connection String:
You can find your connection string in the Azure portal. Here’s how:

Go to your storage account in the Azure portal.

under Security + networking > Access keys.

You will see the connection strings listed there. You can copy one of the connection strings to use in Storage Explorer.

Hope the above suggestion helps! Please let us know do you have any further queries.

Please do consider to “up-vote” wherever the information provided helps you, this can be beneficial to other community members.

Answer 1

Hi Buzz Beyer,

To download all files from Azure storage before canceling your subscription, you can use Azure Storage Explorer to select and download files or utilize AzCopy for bulk downloads.

Using Storage Explorer:

Downloading and installing Azure Storage Explorer from the official Microsoft website.
Sign In to Your Account open the application and log in using your Azure account.
Access your storage account and navigate to the container that holds your files.
Choose Files select the files or folders you want to download.
Right-click on the selected files and choose the "Download" option to save them to your local computer.

Using AzCopy:

Download AzCopy from Azure's official page and install it.
Authenticate with Azure:
- Open a command prompt.
- Run the following command to log in to your Azure account:
  azcopy login
Get the Blob SAS URL:
- Log into the Azure Portal, navigate to your storage account, and locate the container that holds your files.
- Generate a Shared Access Signature (SAS) token for the container to enable secure access.
Download Files:
- Use the following command to download all files from the container to a folder on your local machine:

azcopy copy "https://<storage-account-name>.blob.core.windows.net/<container-name>?<sas-token>" "<local-directory>" --recursive

Replace <storage-account-name>, <container-name>, <sas-token>, and <local-directory> with your actual values:
<storage-account-name>: Name of your Azure Storage account.
<container-name>: The name of the blob container.
<sas-token>: The SAS token you generated.
- <local-directory>: The path where files will be saved locally.
- Once the process is complete, check the target folder to ensure all files have been downloaded.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-azcopy-blobs-download
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58453330/download-all-files-from-azure-storage-account
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/cancel-azure-subscription
Hope the above suggestion helps! Please let us know do you have any further queries.

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Vinod Kumar Reddy Chilupuri 4,185 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-04-03T12:06:24.96+00:00

Hi Buzz Beyer,

Just checking to see if the suggestion provided helped you to solve your issue, Please Accept the answer and let us know if you have any further queries. If the above suggestion helps you to solve your issue, please accept the answer, this can be beneficial to other community members.
Vinod Kumar Reddy Chilupuri 4,185 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-04-04T08:52:13.1666667+00:00

Hi Buzz Beyer,

Just checking to see if the suggestion provided helped you to solve your issue, Please Accept the answer and let us know if you have any further queries. If the above suggestion helps you to solve your issue, please accept the answer, this can be beneficial to other community members.

Answer 2

Hi @Buzz Beyer

Unfortunately we have closed our business, I want to cancel my Azure subscription, but before I do that, I need to download all our files for storage. How can I do this?

You can use the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer to download all files from the Azure storage. Here is the step by step to connect and download all files from Azure storage.

Before establishing a connection, you need the connection string from Azure Storage, which you can obtain from the Azure portal. Azure portal -> your storage account -> Security + Networking -> Access key -> Copy the connection string.
Open the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer and click the connect to Azure Resource.
Next click the Storage account or resource.
Select the Connection string method.
Add the display name as per your requirement. Here, I have used "Sample" as a placeholder and pasted it along with the connection string.
Click Next and you will see the summary like below and click the connect button.
Now, you can see the storage account with the display name "Sample" in your explorer.
Now, if you click on the container, you will see the "Download All" button in the explorer.

The above steps will download all files from the Azure storage using Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer.

Reference:

Manage Azure Blob Storage resources with Storage Explorer | Microsoft Learn

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