How do I stop files from opening after downloading?
My file automatically opens instead of saving when I download in ChromePosted on: Oct, 2020 By: Art Holden Have you tried downloading items in Chrome but they open instead of downloading? If you are using Google Chrome as your internet browser and notice this, don't worry, we can help! If the file automatically opens instead of saving when using Chrome, keep on reading! Show Learn how to set whether a file opens or saves automatically when downloading using ChromeIn a perfect world: The file downloads normally...hooray!Ideally, when you click "Download" on one of our items (in Chrome) you'll have this icon show up in the lower-left corner of your computer screen. If you click the dropdown arrow (right next to the word "gif" in the image above) you get 3 options: By now, the file is already downloaded to the Downloads folder on your computer. Clicking the dropdown menu only gives you additional options.
The file automatically opens...how to make it download instead!So, if you click "Always open files of this type (even once!)- ... what happens is that the file will automatically open instead of downloading to the folder, and will open in whatever the default program is for the file type. Then, the file automatically opens instead of saving when I download in Chrome To change this setting, start by clicking the "Tools" icon on your Chrome browser (Updated 7/17/2020 - click the 3 DOTS icon) 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. Scroll down to Advanced Settings, click Downloads, and clear your Auto Open options. 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. View Transcript Good morning everybody, this is Kara Jones with PresenterMedia, and today were talking Chrome. 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? In the background I have our PresenterMedia website open, dont worry guys I tested this out this morning. If you open up a file, or rather you click on a link and then click on a file to download it, sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes, you might notice that you dont get a cute little download option, it just opens the file in the viewer, then you open the viewer and youre like wait a minute waaaaah! I want to save this, I want to save this whole thing, how do I save this? I dont know how. 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 this is not just the video backs, this is not just the clip art images, this is anything really that youre able to open from our website or even from other websites. So you just click on a link and it opens it. You can use edit and create, try to find out where youre saving this file. If youre like me, instead of having to go through all these steps, youd rather just have the file download, and then youre done. 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. Youll notice that the downloads section atthe very top has a default location for anything you would save to, and then you have ask for where each file saves before downloading, open certain file types before downloading. That is the option we want to go and have cleared. Click Clearand now by default when we click on something instead of it automatically opening it, its going to give us that beautiful little download option at the bottom. And remember you can always click the up arrow and Always open files of this type if you do just want to preview it lets say you do watch a lot of the video backgrounds instead of downloading them. 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.So this is just a great way for you as a user to be able to have more control over what it is that youre downloading. Thats it folks, thanks so much for watching todays tutorial, this is Kara Jones with PresenterMedia. If you like watching tutorials like this, make sure to like and subscribe, and if you would like to be able to download all of the content on the PresenterMedia website for $59.95 a year, thats not even a cup of coffee a month if you go to one of the fancy places. 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. Cmon, join the fun, leave a comment below if you have any questions, Id be happy to answer them for you. And as always folks, this is Kara Jones with PresenterMedia, lets make great presentations. 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" Additional resources in using Chrome can be found at the links below: By: Art Holden Art Holden has been involved in presentation and animation graphic content since 1990. He had the pleasure of creating one of the very first animation websites on the internet, Animation Factory. For 13 years he managed and created media for Animation Factory. He is now a part-owner and an employee working full time at PresenterMedia. His hobbies outside of work revolve around being involved in the bicycling community in Sioux Falls, SD. He never misses an opportunity to get on his bike and enjoy a ride. Blog Comments (Sign In to Comment):Jun 27, 2014 - Roman ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou!! Oct 21, 2014 - Kanishka Dutta Thank you for the help! This worked. Nov 20, 2014 - pete that no longer works. Google must have changed their settings page. There are no auto-open options near the download setion. Dec 11, 2014 - robin thank you so much, this was driving me crazy ! Jan 09, 2015 - Patrick Thank you. You saved me a lot of headache. Mar 12, 2015 - deepak kaushik in chrome setting there is option clear auto open setting just click over it problem is solved Aug 15, 2015 - Jim Mooney Not in the Download settings anymore. I am forced to go through their crappy player Every Time, when I want to dl a bunch of mp3s. Screw Chrome. I'm going back to Firefox. I'm tired of fighting a "option" they haven't fixed in years. Aug 17, 2015 - Billy Schlotter You are right Jim, it is not in the download section anymore. We will update this post to reflect that. You can know just right click on the downloaded item and either uncheck or check 'Always open files of this type.' - Billy Oct 13, 2015 - annette how do I stop the auto download since it is no longer on the screen to change it - I do not want everything to auto start as there could be bugs attached or malware Oct 13, 2015 - Billy Schlotter A download link will start an automatic download regardless of the browser. Our site does not start a download till the download button is clicked. The best solution is to know what you're clicking on and making sure you have an anti-virus installed that will scan each downloaded file. Oct 15, 2015 - Dustin You guys are awesome! Thank you so much for this solution! Oct 15, 2015 - Billy Schlotter No problem Dustin! Glad we could help! Nov 16, 2015 - Bob That doesn't work because I can't download the file. It opens every time. Nov 17, 2015 - Billy Schlotter What opens? If you are unable to download the file nothing should open. Nov 21, 2015 - Isaac Thanks it worked! Mar 29, 2016 - Joseph To download when you click instead of opening a link, just hold Alt when you left click. Voila! Apr 15, 2016 - WhiteNoiseTrash The file opens. If you click a .Wav file anywhere, it will open in the browser player instead of downloading, and you have no option to prevent it from doing so, meaning that the right-click menu which would allow you to choose it to download it or open it in the future is not showing. Apr 15, 2016 - Billy Schlotter What browser and version are you using? Are you trying to download a custom project or a video background? May 18, 2016 - Peter Maguire Holy cow! That was exactly what I needed. I specifically logged in just to leave a thank you comment. May 26, 2016 - Pedro Armindo Thanks. Sep 23, 2016 - Adam Dyke Awesome.., it works.. thanks man... Nov 16, 2016 - Gabriel you saved my life Nov 17, 2016 - Billy Schlotter Glad we could help! |
