Chrome sometimes refuses to let me download files, and it happens about three out of every four times.
Chrome sometimes refuses to let me download files, and it happens about three out of every four times.
I have an old PC from six years ago built by me. It's acting weird lately. Every time I try to download something from Google Chrome, this goes wrong. Sometimes it works if I click "save image as," but about 70% of the time when I want to download stuff on Google, my computer does what is shown in the video. The pop-up comes up, but it doesn't work and no text or files show up usually. It takes a long time, like 3 to 5 minutes, before suddenly "saving" works. Sometimes closing that window and pressing "download" again helps. Does anyone know how I can fix this? I am a video editor, so getting things downloaded from Google is very important for me. Maybe something is wrong with my hard drive (a 2 TB Kingston drive without an OS installed, just for storage). When I try to play a video from that HDD, Windows takes up to 10 minutes before saying "server execution failed." But when I import a 10 GB video into Premiere Pro from the same hard drive, it plays back perfectly with no problems. The Chrome folder is on a separate 500 GB SSD.
I didn't know Kingston made hard drives. Have you tried: 1. Restarting your computer 2. Updating Chrome to the newest version 3. Uninstalling and reinstalling Chrome 4. Using a different browser like Firefox š¤ How full is your hard drive? Do you try: 1. Another video player instead of Windows Media Player (like VLC) 2. Checking if the file isn't broken š¤ Is it the same file or a different one?
Whenever you save a file on your computer hard drive, does it always go through without a problem? If that happens, then the drive is probably broken or acting up in some way.
Thanks for the reply šYes, i got the HDD manufacturer mixed up in my head haha - it's a Seagate 2TB Barracuda ST2000DM008 HDD - 7200RPM HDD š I've restarted my pc countless times. The issue happens no matter what.But thank you for the tip - i'll definitely try un- and reinstalling Chrome to see if that makes any difference. Neither of my drives are very full actually. They look like this: C: (SSD w. windows) = 464 gb total - 98gb free D: (250gb nvme ssd) = 237gb total - 135gb free M: (2tb Seagate HDD) = 1.81TB total - 510gb free. I have validated that the video files i try to open are 100% fine and not corrupt. I just now tested opening some 10 videos respectively with windows media player, and then vlc. Hereās what i found: HDD & SSD Videos - comparing time-to-open-video - VLC versus Windows Media Player VLC (not open beforehand. time from āOpen with ā VLCā click, to VLC open & video plays) : 18 seconds VLC (When VLC already open) = 0 seconds Windows Media Player: 2 minutes, 5 seconds (125 seconds) consistently across 6 videos sized 100-500mb each. 3 were from my 500gb c: Windows SSD, and 3 were from the 2TB seagate HDD. For some reason, opening & watching videos is no problem, once Windows Media Player is open. When its open, opening new videos is pretty much instantaneous. However when WMP isnāt already open, i have to wait 2 minutes and 5 seconds before the video āloadsā. After i double tap a video, the Windows Media Player window opens, but only displays a white screen with the WMP Logo in the center. After 2 minutes and 5 seconds, the video finally appears and plays. It is somewhat the same for VLC. VLC is lightning fast at opening and playing video (from both HDD and SSD) when the program is already open. However when VLC is not already running, it takes around 18 seconds for it to load up my videos. Still faster than Windows Media player for some reason though. Both applications are installed on my c: drive (500gb ssd where windows is also stored). Now, in regards to this I made a little experiment. I recorded how much time it took from CLICK on Download button, to the āSave Asā window being fully open, and interactable - meaning i could actually click the āsaveā button. The window iām talking about is also the one i show in the video. The problem is not the download time in itself. After the f****ng window has finally loaded, and i click āsaveā, the download of the file itself is usually really quick (this goes for both my HDD and SSD). So yeah, the problem actually occurs before i can choose which drive to download to. I can download to all my drives with no problem. It's only the "save as" window part that for some reason takes ages to load. Oh well, here's the recorded time for both Google Chrome and Brave Browser to compare the two and see if Google Chrome maybe is exclusively at fault. Hereās what i found: Google Chrome file 1: 0 seconds file 2: 2:04:66 (2 minutes, 4 seconds, 66 milliseconds) file 3: 2:04:45 file 4: 2:05:09 file 5: 2:04:26 Brave Browser: file 1: 2:04:10 file 2: 2:04:34 file 3: 2:04:19 file 4: 2:04.80 file 5: 2:04:37 Iām lost. What is my computers obsession with 2 minutes and 4-5 seconds? It seems as if it has something to do with windows opening new applications? (since both windows media player and google's "Save As" window take the same amount of time to load? (or freeze the same amount of time lol)).
It might just be the RAM. Since VLC opens videos way faster than the old Windows Media Player, I think it's a problem with the computer settings (software), not your hard drive. The easiest fix is to format your C: drive and start a fresh Windows installation. This will take care of every software issue, remove all unwanted programs, and almost get rid of bad files like malware (except for rootkits). Just remember to disconnect those two extra drives before starting a clean install because Windows might put its boot manager on the wrong drive instead of where you actually installed it. A clean Windows installation should solve your problem completely. But if the issue stays after that, then we need to check the hardware. We can tweak things inside the BIOS or replace one part entirely. From a hardware point of view, my main guess is about the RAM. However, since a clean install is free and takes out software as the cause, do it first.