How to 'Resume download' when downloading files is interrupted in Google Chrome

It's annoying to be downloading a large file that the Internet connection naturally gets lost. However, with Google Chrome, you can continue to download (resume) if Internet connection interruption occurs.

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Continue downloading using Chrome's download manager

Google Chrome uses the integrated download manager to display all downloads such as downloading, failed download, canceled download and downloaded file. The manager opens the download information in a separate tab and displays a list of all the downloads you have downloaded in Chrome.

Note: Some websites do not allow you to continue downloading if you cannot download the first time. Some web servers do not remember to request to download your file and must download from the beginning.

To open the download manager, type chrome: // downloads into the address and press the Enter key. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl + J on Windows and Command + J on macOS.

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In the download list, find the failed download file and click Resume .

If there are no problems, the file will continue to load from the interrupted location before being disconnected.

Continue downloading using WGet

If the download cannot continue after pressing the Resume button, you can try WGet. It uses the command line, it's free and requires a partial download file. Although using the command line is not easy for some people, the step-by-step guide below will help you.

WGet is open source application for Linux, macOS and Windows. It is part of the GNU project that retrieves files over the Internet. This is a command line tool that allows to continue downloading files directly from the web server.

Go to the WGet download page and download the software for your operating system. Because this application is primarily used to continue downloading files on Chrome and uses partially downloaded files, we can leave it in Chrome's default download directory for convenience.

 https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/faq.html#download 

Open the download manager by pressing Ctrl + J (Windows) or Command + J (macOS), locate the file, right-click and the website of the source file, then select Copy Link Address .

Now, click on More (three dots) and then select the Open Downloads Folder option .

Locate the file, right-click on it and then select Rename .

Delete the .crdownload file extension and press Enter .

Sometimes, Chrome names the default file as Unconfirmed.crdownload. In this case, you need to rename the whole file with the original file name from the source URL you copied first. For example, the source URL is http://website.com/your/file/here/6.7.1.9.exe. So the file name is 6.7.1.9.exe.

You will receive a warning message that this file may be unusable if you change the extension, click on Yes .

Now, open Command Prompt (Windows) or Terminal (macOS) and navigate to the download directory (e.g. C: UsersUserDownloads) containing the interrupted download file and the extracted WGet executable file. Type -c . It will look like this:

 wget -c http://source.website.com/incompleteFile.exe 

Hit Enter and if the server allows it, the file will continue downloading from where it was interrupted in Chrome. If not, the file will be downloaded from the beginning again.

After downloading the file successfully, you can close the Command Prompt or Terminal and open the file normally.

I wish you successful implementation!