Google wont download some pdf files

There was an add-on in the Chrome Web Store that supposedly stopped these PDFs from downloading forcibly, but it no longer works. Barring a poor internet connection , this usually occurs due to conflicting third-party extensions or malicious browser-targeted code on your PC.

So, let's see how you can get Chrome back to normal. To determine if this the cause of the issue, try working in Incognito mode.

Doing this launches Chrome with all extensions disabled. To do that, point to More Tools on the Chrome menu, and then click Extensions. Once you comes across the problematic plugin, consider removing it or keeping it disabled when using Chrome in normal mode. If the problem occurs even in Incognito mode, then there might be malware hidden away on your PC that interferes with the browser's basic functions. It should take a while for Chrome to detect and clean up your PC.

You may find various instances of missing images, weird-looking text, or laggy scrolling on certain PDFs — and rarely, on all documents that you open.

However, running through the following fixes should make Chrome display PDFs properly. Afterward, check if you still encounter issues when viewing PDFs. An outdated web cache is another common reason for incorrectly rendering or malfunctioning PDFs, especially if the cache gets corrupted or certain web elements change subsequently later on. Hence, clearing all locally cached data should prompt the browser to download fresh content and hopefully render your PDFs properly.

If there are incompatibilities between your video drivers and the Chrome PDF viewer, you are bound to run into all sorts of weird graphical anomalies.

Chrome uses hardware acceleration by default, but stopping it from doing so should fix severe lagging or flickering issues. If you are a Google Chrome user, you can sign into multiple Google accounts. However, one of them is used as a default account. That account is also used for the Google Chrome sync feature. Whenever you receive a Google Drive link accessible from a different account, you need to switch to that account.

To do so, open drive. You will be signed in with the default account. Click on the profile picture at the top-right corner of the Drive screen. Your Google accounts will show up. Click on the one that you want to switch to. A new window will open where you are logged in with your second Google account. If you close the window and open the Google Drive website again, you will be logged in with the default account.

Repeat the steps to switch the Google account in Drive. Then try to download files with only one account registered in Chrome. Do you use ad blocker extensions on your browser? Disable any ad blocker or recently downloaded third-party extensions. That should fix the issue. Similarly, if you are using an antivirus on your computer, disable it temporarily.

See if you can download files from Google Drive. Sometimes, the issue is with a particular browser only. First, update the browser. While this is not a proper fix, use this method as a workaround if nothing else lets you download Google Drive files.

Basically, when someone sends a Google Drive link to you, copy it and paste it in your browser's incognito mode. To open incognito mode in Chrome, click on the three-dot icon at the top-right corner.

Select the New Incognito window. Paste the link in the new window that opens. The same workaround can be used to download your own Google Drive files or folders as well.

Right-click on the file that you want to download. Select Share from the menu. Then copy the link and paste it in the incognito window and download the files. If nothing works, you should download the Google Drive Backup and sync app. Thanks to the dominance of Gmail, both in our personal and professional lives, lots of us have switched to Google Drive for our cloud storage needs. Google Drive is generally a great tool.

Personal accounts get 15 GB of storage for free; basic corporate accounts get 30 GB. You can edit all kinds of documents, including Microsoft Office ones, right within the app. You can even share files with others and download them too.

The downloading part, however, does sometimes break. A common error here is HTTP , saying that access to …googleusercontent.

Logically, you might wonder how that can be and why Google could be restricting access to your own files. While Google Drive errors for denying access, failing to perform an action, or forbidding something are truly very occasional, they nevertheless result in a fury of questions from users.

Few things are as alarming as not being able to have complete control of your files. So why does it happen? There are generally three catalysts for Google Drive errors: your user account, your browser, or your Mac or even a combination of these.

Surprisingly, Google Drive gives you several methods for downloading any file. So while there might be a glitch with one of them, others might work as usual. Fourth, if you double-click on photos and PDFs, or if you choose Preview from the top menu for any other file, you can then click the download icon at the top.

Fifth, when you try to download a few files at once, Google Drive will create a zip archive. There are instances where this archive could fail to download.

To fix this, close the Google Drive tab — it will give you a warning that files were not saved, select Leave and the download should start properly. To fix this, log out of all Google accounts. Then only log back in with the account that should have access to the file you want to download and try again.