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Have you ever been in the process of downloading a large file in Chrome, then suddenly and without warning, your Internet gets disconnected or your computer hangs and you are forced to reboot? A download could also be interrupted by accidentally removing the electrical power cord from the wall socket or through power outage in your area.

When you finally get your computer up and running again, you agonizingly realize your download progress has disappeared and you have to restart.

If this happens a couple of times, a simple download can take ages to complete. If you are on a limited bandwidth plan or your carrier throttles your dataIs Your Carrier Slowing Down Your Unlimited Data Connection? How To Avoid Data ThrottlingIs Your Carrier Slowing Down Your Unlimited Data Connection? How To Avoid Data ThrottlingIf you are on an unlimited plan that's throttled once you exceed certain limits or you have a data cap, as most people do, this article offers advice on how to ease the pain.Read More after you exceed the fair usage limit, the consequences of an interrupted download can be expensive.

Unfortunately, unlike Firefox and Internet Explorer which allow you to easily resume interrupted downloads, this is one area that Chrome fails miserably. If you are a die-hard Chrome user, then the following workaround should help you avoid restarting a big download. Take note that I tested this in Windows 7.

WGet

This handy application is free and is part of the GNU project. Its primary purpose is to retrieve content from web servers. The name is a combination of the words “World Wide Web” and “Get”. Download the program and install it on your computer. Do not install it in the default programs folder. Select a different install location, because you will need to copy the failed download file to the same location as Wget’s executable file.

Locate the unconfirmed download file, paste it into the same location as the Wget executable file. Look in the Google Drive > GnuWin32 > Bin folder.

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Rename it by deleting the “.crdownload” extension as shown below. Click Yes in the notification that pops up.

Next, in the download location folder, press and hold down the Shift key, right click and select Open Command Window Here.

A command window should launch. Type in the following command wget -c chrome-will-not-download-files.html, where chrome-will-not-download-files.html is the download link, and press Enter. You can find the download link by going to your Chrome downloads page using the shortcut Ctrl +J.

You will notice that the download picks up where it left off before the interruption. Once the download completes, the command window closes. Confirm that file has been downloaded by checking the download location.

Can You Do It With An Extension or App?

Unfortunately, there isn’t a Chrome download manager that resumes interrupted downloads in same way a Firefox add-on such as DownThemAll7 Extensions Firefox Users Love That No Other Browser Has7 Extensions Firefox Users Love That No Other Browser HasExtensions aren't always supported across all browsers. Check out these beloved Firefox-only extensions that are so useful that you may be swayed over from whichever other browser you currently use.Read More is able do it. I tested out several popular Chrome download managers and they all failed to pick up a download at the point it was interrupted. The only option available was to restart the download. Chrome simply doesn’t have this functionality yet but we hope the developers will include this feature in the next release. This is yet another thing Chrome doesn’t let you doFirefox Freedom! Four Things Chrome Doesn’t Let Users DoFirefox Freedom! Four Things Chrome Doesn’t Let Users DoThink Chrome can do everything? Think again. Here are four things Firefox users can do easily that Chrome users basically can't.Read More, that Firefox does.

Experimental Features

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If this works, you should see a new context menu item labelled Resume uponright clicking on the file in Chrome’s download page . But, like I said, this is an experimental feature and the developers make no guarantees on whether it works. To the best of my knowledge, it doesn’t work in Windows 7 and I am only including this information here for the benefit of Mac, Linux and Chrome OS users who may have better luck with the feature.

How Do You Resume Your Downloads?

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Have you ever had to resume an interrupted download in Chrome? How did you go about it? Share your insights and suggestions in the comments below.

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  1. I have also tried many times. 'Resume' not working in chrome.

  2. Kihara,

    The resume is now available under :
    chrome://downloads/

  3. Followed the instructions but the download started from the beginning instead of resuming. The instructions say to rename the partially downloaded file by simply removing the .crdownload extension. I couldn't help wondering how wget would know to resume that particular file. And sure enough it did not even try to resume.

    I then renamed the partially downloaded file to the actual filename (i.e. NOT the temporary 'Unconfirmed nnnnnn' filename) & tried running the wget command again. This time it resumed.

    That is all.

  4. no use sir not working pls give a new method

  5. Do it in Firefox. Chrome will never work. It's waste.....

  6. I could never get it to work in Chrome on Mac, despite there being a resume option available - it always failed. Safari on the other hand, that resumes downloads perfectly.

  7. I have an idea
    Please copy a new download link address and start a fresh download using mi built in browser.
    Please pause the download it reaches above 100 kB.
    Then go to your file manager and open the downloads folder.find the last paused download and copy it's name.
    Then paste the old broken download file to downloads folder and rename it.
    Then go to mi browser and resume the download.
    Bye
    More tricks subscribe to my YouTube channel ( YouTube.com/amalthomas987 )

    • What is mi browser?

    • I downloaded the apllication wget . But I can't find a file with .crdownload extension ....

  8. Arey yaar!!what have you done?? it has started from the beginning again
    I have done same things you said and the download started from the beginning again

    • I have an idea
      Please copy a new download link address and start a fresh download using mi built in browser.
      Please pause the download it reaches above 100 kB.
      Then go to your file manager and open the downloads folder.find the last paused download and copy it's name.
      Then paste the old broken download file to downloads folder and rename it.
      Then go to mi browser and resume the download.
      Bye
      More tricks subscribe to my YouTube channel ( YouTube.com/amalthomas987 )

  9. Tried a 51.1 GB download only to wake up and find out it failed during the night. I just discovered mine was enabled by default; went through the entire 'flags' list several times and couldn't find it, so I opened the download window. The file had 'resume' at the bottom, which I clicked... and it resumed and finished the download! Woohoo!

  10. I currently have Windows 7 with the latest version of Chrome, and this is all you have to do.

    Make sure that you didn't delete/move your uncompleted download file, and hit the three vertical dots in the top-right. Go to downloads (you can also hit ctrl-j). Find your file in the list, and click resume.

    Did it just now, and it works fine.

  11. There is a browser that has a built-in download program that allows you to resume a file download. The browser is Maxthon Cloud Browser. It is Chromium based. I have been using it for a long time. It had worked great. Recent updates(?) have caused problems. The download stops a lot recently. I don't know if it is because of the browser updates, a problem with my internet source, or the internet service I am downloading from. The speed also has been dropping off. You can pause the download and resume it.

    Recently it has problems which it didn't have before. Sometimes it refuses to start the file download. These are small files from web sites.

    It has other features that I love and can't find most of them in other browsers.

  12. Thanks for this.
    When I tried on a Win10 (WGet64, not WGet) computer with a https location. It wasnt working - called it an unsupported scheme.
    Tried the same link with http, it was initiating a new thread.
    Then, I changed the partial download file (the one with .crdownload extension) with the name of the actual fine name including extension, it worked like a charm.

    • i can't find the 'enable download resumption'

    • so the last step you changed the partial downloads name from .crdownload to android studio-etc?

  13. The download URL has a username and password. How do I pass the username and password in wget -c command?

    • wget -c URL --user USER --password PASS

  14. how to remove the extension

  15. There is no excuse in the 2010s for failling to support download resumption. FTP and HTTP certainly do support it, always have, and to have to use wget is just unaccceptable, period.

    Opera, by the way, has always resumed downloads pretty much perfectly out of the box. And DownThemAll on Firefox has also always worked. Chrome is uniquely bad at this, and it bodes ill for a 'Chromebook' or 'ChromeOS', which I will never use or buy, for any reason, since if you can't implement simple file download resumption, you don't belong in the OS business at all. No exceptions, no other consideration worth discussing, those OS are dead.

  16. God bless you for this awesome post. I've always been a victim of discontinued downloads in chrome and as a result I've lost hundreds of data. However, this is not the case anymore as I tried out this method(the first one with wget) and it worked! thanks a lot for helping out.

  17. it does not work. it says the download is 100% but it's not.

    • Bro you trying windows xp or what ?

      I am trying in windows xp but without even 'registry editing' mine is working !
      It stoped at 93% now resumed it is 96% as I am typing.

  18. i don't have resume button in chrome. now what can i do?

    • True. Didn't work in XP don't know about Windows 7.

  19. Worked for me, but I needed to have both the partially complete program and unconfirmed download file in the same folder. When I tried with only the unconfirmed download file, it started from 0%, but when I copied over the partially completed program file as well as the unconfirmed download file to the same folder, it picked off from where it had left off.

  20. This is indeed horrible in Chrome. I was downloading a game and forgot that i didn't have enough space on my disk, so the download got interrupted. I removed some old movies from my disc, i was sure i had enought again, but noooo... couldn't continue! Thanks for the advice. AND F*** GOOGLE!

  21. Just found out how bad the user xp with sammobile is. Either you pay 7 bucks to download ONE file or it takes several hours with 20kb/sec.
    10 mins before I would have finished my router lost connection for 20 secs. At that time I found out that Chrome does not resume. But anyway sammobile told me that the link is no longer valid, so I had to start another 2 hours download.
    This time I wanted to use a download manager, but guess what? They use an internal username and password so you cannot use the link in any other program.
    Their files cannot be found on any other fileserver, although they don't seem to be copyrighted.

    BTW, I guess the best download manager is still Getright, as it is able to download a file from several servers at the same time.

  22. I remember download resume on Netscape! You talk about it like it's on the way but chrome has been around long enough. Why not implement it? There must be a reason.

  23. The best way to dl on linux is wget. Just copy the download link and enter it into terminal. You will have to install wget first.

    It's so curious that this feature is missing. Actually

  24. an anyone plzz tell me how to rename the file in the earlier step i am having problem understanding it

  25. Can we please!!!! PLEASE!!!!! cut to the chase??? people who are pissed off at a sudden 'unknown network error' (especially with limited bandwidth internet) are really pissed off and damn near break their keyboard and mouse who'd rather not be educated on what they're looking for and get lost in link after link after link after link after link after link after description after link after link...

  26. Thanks Kihara,

    I cant tell you how useful this post was. I have to download a few huge files and my pc just went off at about 70% of the job.

    I thought I have to start it over until I've read that big blue word 'WGet'. I fell stupid for not thinking about wget before google-ing for a solution to my problem.

    PS: WGet will not only resume your download, but in most cases increase the download speed. Of course if you are already downloading with the maximum speed based on your connection or the server where the file is located then no change for you.

    In Chrome i was downloading 2 files, both with 250 - 270 k/s, but with wget i'm downloading one file with about 500 k/s and the other with about 300 k/s.

    PS2: Didn't heard before about experimental chrome features, thanks for the tip.

    Nice article and really useful information, thanks again.

  27. Hi, Thank you very much for the DownloadAll tip. The extension is great. TYVM! ;)

  28. i cannot find the crdownload file.... help me.... the download was failed and no crdownload file in download folder...

  29. just use internet download manager (idm) best the is, resume all downloads and you can even download YouTube videos ..

  30. I am not able to find .crdownload file in Downloads folder!!!
    Please help me out..

  31. really really awesome man... thank god ..

  32. Thanks. I suspected there was a way to do this and was thinking of trying to go to my linux box to do it, but your concise article reminded me that it was easier to grab wget for windows. You also gave me the confirmation that it would work. I'm transferring 100gb of data from one data center to another and you've saved me 15 hours of transfer time thanks to f'ing windows auto-rebooting for updates last night and stopping 70gb had been moved.

  33. Thank you for the tips, Mr. Kimachia.

    Manage to resume and complete an interrupted download using the GNU Wget utility.

  34. Some Chrome-like browsers can restore downloads. For example, Citrio.

  35. My internet often fails. So to make downloads I use a software called Orbit, for windows.

  36. Yes. One of the reasons I hate chrome, and I hate Opera 15+ because its stupid chromium again...

  37. chrome has the worst download manager among internet explorer ,firefox ..whileusing a slow connection..
    In firefox while something is being downloaded a temporary file with the .part extention gets created (sometimes a file with the original file name is also created ..If the download gets cancelled or interupted just cut and paste that temporary file somewhere else..restart the download wait fr sometime .again a file will be created just copy its name and rename the file copied earlier with this name ...and replace the new file with the old one resume the download again ..and u will find it starts from where it got cancelled earlier...
    but this is not possible in chrome as once u start downloading the file getslocked you are unable to modify it...
    if u want something easy use fdm or idm works like a charm.

  38. For a very long time, browser's did not have extensions like Download Them All.
    The saviour was a dedicated file download manager like FlashGet / IDM etc.

    All you had to do is paste the URL in the download manager, and it would do the needful. By integrating it's plugin in the browser, the download managers could also intercept downloads initiated by the browsers and take over. They could also download all links present in a page, download files in a sequence, etc. etc.

    Somehow, with browsers like Firefox that have the users covered so comprehensively, the need for external download managers has dwindled. Thanks to Chrome for setting us back by a decade.

  39. Or you could just use DownThemAll, which resumes broken downloads *and* does segmented downloading (downloading different parts of a file over different connections, like the old program GetRight, which significantly speeds things up, especially if there are file mirrors available).
    Oh that's right, Chrome doesn't have DownThemAll...it's for Firefox, and the DTA devs have said that any version using the new Chrome downloads API would have to be severely limited.
    Firefox FTW!

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Google Chrome users

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