Chrome keeps trying to download file

When you click on the three small lines dots tools icon , you'll see a dropdown box appear. Click on "Settings" and you'll see a new page pop up in your Chrome browser window. Next time you download an item, it will be saved instead of opened automatically. If you're more of a visual learner, we did create a brief video of how to set chrome to download links instead of opening them below.

Or more specifically, what happens when you click on a link in Chrome and it keeps opening instead of saving to your computer. What do I mean by that? I want to save this, I want to save this whole thing, how do I save this? So what is happening right now, is Chrome is using the settings that are going to allow you to preview any kind of item. So you just click on a link and it opens it. So, to get to that, all we have to do is in Chrome, we get to our settings.

To get to settings go to the three little drop down and you go down to Settings, third from the bottom right there. Then click on Advanced, and downloads. That is the option we want to go and have cleared. Or you can click show in folder. Show in folder is great because it can show you where everything is downloaded to, and not only that, you can be able to make sure if you did download something one, two, three times whoops!

You can have access to everything that did get downloaded to that location. You can get unlimited PowerPoint templates, animations, including custom text where you can change everything, customizable clip art images, video backgrounds including custom videos, a new slide clip video maker, and more. Unlimited downloads all year long. Your Settings link for Chrome can be found here.

And if you need additional support, Chrome has a help menu and search feature here. Thanks for searching for "My file automatically opens instead of saving when I download in Chrome". Is there a Google version of PowerPoint? PowerPoint Templates. PowerPoint Animations. Presentation Clipart. Video Backgrounds. Everywhere Threads This forum This thread. Search Advanced…. Log in. Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4.

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Forums Apps Social Networking. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Previous Next Sort by votes. Scotty99 Distinguished. Aug 21, 9 0 18, 0. I have searched all of the options in google chrome, and for the life of me i cannot figure out how to cancel this download lol! It is some unknown file type windows does not recognize, and is annoying because even after it finishes downloading it randomly tries to download it again, quite frequently.

When this happens it messes up my browsing etc etc. Do you have more questions related to downloads in Google Chrome? Here are a few that may be of help to you. You can unblock harmful files on your computer using one of the methods described in the previous sections. The file you want to unblock might contain a virus that can destroy or leak information you have on your computer. You might be able to proceed with the download. Your Chrome settings may not be the issue.

The solution, with the cause now found, is equally simple: menu, settings , scroll to bottom, click advanced , click clear browsing data and select how long a time you have been frustrated: last day usually does it for me. And then click Clear browsing data. At least Chrome has the choice of time period, to avoid having to erase the entire cache.

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