Internet Download Manager, aka IDM, is the most popular download manager software in the world. It has many awesome features that make it the best download manager software. However, you can face some problems with the IDM extension or on its main software. For instance, you may have noticed that not all types of files we download from internet support are resuming on IDM.
Actually, it’s not IDM’s fault; some websites have time limitations for downloading any file, especially a size file that is quite huge and could take up so much temporary file directory storage. This situation especially occurs when you try to download big file sizes from the internet. In such cases, if your internet connection is not that good, it’s really a waste of time for you to try downloading a big file size that doesn’t support your resume.
Because that means – even if a file downloading stops after 99.99% is done, it’s useless as you can’t download the rest. But, don’t worry, here are some little tricks that will help you resume broken or corrupted file downloads on IDM, which don’t support Resume. I’m sure you guys will find this trick very useful, check the trick below.
In this post, we’ll explore:
Resuming a Broken or Expired file Download in IDM, How to Continue Corrupted IDM Downloads.
Now for getting a better idea about this, let’s presume that you were downloading a YouTube video from the en.SaveFrom.net website, and your download has broken or stopped after some time, and here I will show you how to resume that original file download. You can check the entire step-by-step guide below. At the end of the post, I have described what we are doing here; you should also check that.
- Copy the video URL and paste it into the URL box of SaveFrom.net.
- Click on Download Link, and your file will start downloading.
- As the time for downloading files from savefrom.net is limited (it’s 12 hours). After 12 Hours, the file downloading will stop, and your download will become broken or expired.
- Now for resuming the download, we will again go to Savefrom.net and Do Step 1.
- This time we will copy the download link by right-clicking on the download link and copy the link. Then go to IDM and right-click on that file which you were downloading, and select Properties.
- Select the Entire Old File Address and Paste the new File Address there.
- Click on OK, and Start the download, and your download should resume now normally.
As you can see, we are changing the old download link with the new one, so that’s all you need to do. Just change the old download link with the new link to resume any file download in IDM. For more info, you can check what we are doing here below.
What We Are Doing Here – Explained
We download files from an Address. The address is the location of that file on any web server (where everything is stored). We enter the address in the download URL box so the computer can download data from that specific location of the internet. So, in this Trick, we charge the old File Address with the new one to start the download again.
So that was all about how you can resume any file download on IDM, Thanks for reading the post. Please comment below and share the post on social media if you think this can help people. Ask about Temp files, Logfile, Zip file, temporary links, resumable link, Internet security Applications, Internet Accelerators, Antivirus Softwares, internet provider, download process, setting Error, temporary file location, software settings or anything from the Above-Discussed Process.
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Just Resume the Downloading and you are on your way. This method is useful for users facing error like Probably this site uses temporary links that cannot be requested twice or expire after some time when session is completed.
Yeah this method is specially for those websites which has time limitation for downloading.
But, i think it will work on other circumstances also. Anyhow, thanks for commenting.
my download link has not found 🙁
What if the address gets dynamically changed after the session is complete?
Most of the time – IDM don’t resume the file download is because of a change of that files address, if the session expires, then some web servers won’t let you to download the file. That’s why you have to regenerate the download link in order to resume the file download in internet download manager or any other download manager software.
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Hi, I am Vaibhav.
I have some other issue with IDM, I hope you have also faced this condition.
So, the issue is that whenever IDM finds that the file that it is gonna download is already present in the folder where it is going to download a new file, it automatically renames the new to download file by adding “_2” suffix. For example if I have Video1.mp4 already present in the folder C:\videos\ and if I try to download file named Video1.mp4 again from same or different address, it will download it as Video1_2.mp4 without notify me that Video1.mp4 is already present in the folder! So in the end I have two files of the same video.
Do you have any idea how can I get over from this problem ?
Thanks
Regards,
Vaibhav
If you download videos from different sites, then this will happen automatically. But when talking about downloading the same video from the same location, this should not occur. In that case, you will see a pop up in IDM asking you that – “The Same File has already been downloaded do you want to redownload it again.”
Have you deleted the file downloads history (or list) from IDM? Maybe that’s why IDM don’t recognize that you already have the same video downloaded from that site. Hope you understand what i am saying.
I have lost my 6 games my brother deleted all the games so what shall I do now i was having GTA vice City, Prince of Persia,Assassin’s Creed, Bio hazard, FIFA 14, WWE I m missing those games
What you really mean by you lost them?
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Thanks man. It really works. You save my day and my limited internet quota trying to download window 10 iso from Microsoft tech bench.
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Thank you so much sir Sagar, You’re a life saver! Cheers from philippines!
thanks a lot.I was download windows 10 iso and when it reaches 90 address expired.It is really helpful for me and again THANKS ALOT
me also downloading win 10 iso file 2g connection… slow download …. when will the sesssion expires??? period??
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Does this works on automatic download from IDM?
Yes.
What if I had deepfreeze in my pc and my pc was rebooted, can I still apply this? ????
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Woo.. So kind of you bro. it helped me to resume downloading a large file.. TYSM
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You are a genius. I wasted so much time in downloading a file again and again that was stuking repeatidly in between.Thanks.
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thx this is useful.
now, what about if i want to create a permanent download link to those links that expire. Is that possible?
Paul,
You can do that for that you have to use some cloud storage service like MediaFire.
These services let’s you save files from the web to your cloud storage without actually downloading on your computer.
After saving the file to your cloud storage you can download it whenever you want without any issue.
PS. Actually just avoid it, Good Cloud storage Will cost money.
i have deepfreeze on my pc and apparently i dont know the password. the download is gone from the list after my pc turned off. how to i get it back?
What? Please elaborate it clearly.
Hi, anonymous
First thing you have to uninstall the deepfreeze software from your pc/laptop later go for data recovery online if the file has been deleted though you can recover it back but remember if it is more than 10 days from the deleted day then hope its lost you cannot recover data.
hi im sathya im downloading a file not a video how can i continue it?
please help me
Hey Sathya,
You see the process is same for every type of file , i give an example of video.
Just read the post carefully you will understand what to do 🙂
Regards
Sagar
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I’m getting same link with the idm pop-up msg replacing file.. And after replacing still stuck at that error.. Plz hlp
Try replacing the link manually.
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thank you brother . very nice trick ……
my downloading is stuck at 99.99 % how to solve this problem
Have you read the full post?
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Hi Sagar, I started a game download of 14 gb but after 3 gb , the download is not resuming stating ‘time out’. I downloaded the game from a website that has storage in some third-party hosting website. So if I paste the address again, will download resume. Please suggest me a way to this problem. Thank you.
The download will resume.
you said in somebody’s comment :
“Most of the time – IDM don’t resume the file download is because of a –>change of that files address<–, if the session expires, then some web servers won’t let you to download the file".
But how is this possible ,I mean that the file is stored at particular location in the web server then it must be static not dynamic, from where we download the file?
plz reply.
Hey Ray,
You see there is something called “hotlinking.” It’s Basically when someone else uses some one’s websites content (video, software, images, etc.) for his purpose without hosting the files on his server.
That’s why especially software, music and video (and also other content) sites don’t show the direct file URL even when you download the file.
They do some coding (I don’t know what exactly it is), to prevent showing the real URL of the file. That’s why you can not download it directly by just copying your download file URL. You can check this thing live on the popular software download site “filehippo.com.” For more info on this topic search on the web for hotlinking. You can understand the issue correctly after doing some research.
Regards
Sagar
what about stopping at 99% ?
can u tell me how to fix it?
Hi Mr. Sagar.
Thanks for the info. I just want some clarification on the steps. So does it mean we have to re-download the file but not actually downloading it. Instead we just want to get the new download link, copy and replace it into the broken download link, then resume the download. Is that right?
Yeah you got it right 🙂
hello! how about if the link is from google drive? i tried pasting the new link but it didnt work on me :(((
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Thanks a lot….. I have tried 5 hrs to recover the link but failed….. when i used ur tricks i am able to refresh the link.
Thank you very much…
But in case of large files my IDM losses a maximum amount of data and starts downloading from a certain limit. Suppose I’m downloading a 5 Gb file after downloading 4Gb it disconnects and when I resume again it starts downloading from 2gb that means 2Gb of the previously downloaded data has been lost. Can you tell me how to assure that the file resumes exactly from the same position it lost its connection ?
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wtf you r genius thanks I was searching for long time
what if i cannot paste the in link in the address bar
can i download one file parts from diffrents link ???
Like One from etc site,,,, this was uploaded 5 link (mtlb serve) agr mai 20% download frm first link rest 80% download frm other servr ……. possible h ye kya ishe prts khrb nh hongea
not working.. help me
go to the exact website u’ downloaded it from “THE EXACT WEBSITE”
thanks a lot.My GTAIV was in 81.39percent…i thought it was the end until i read these steps thanks
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I’m literally covering my mouth out of surprise because it really works! Thank you so much! I only have limited month data and you saved my life!!!!! Thank you! <3
thanks a lot. this trick is saving my data.
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you save my 4 days genious. some sites not show download links so just start download again same file in idm to get the link. now go to idm slect downloading file go to proporties and copy link from address tab.now select previous file and go to proporties and past that link in address tab. press ok. resume downloading. yeeeeeeee
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Hi I guess u shold rearrange the comments box from the newest to the oldest. Thanks, I want to try it out. Will be back to comment. Bye
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I wish I really knew this trick earlier before now. I actually came hear after I downloaded a large file of 5.7gb and it stopped at 99% before my laptop shut down. Your trick really works but unfortunately before I could discover your method, the incomplete download had mistakenly been deleted from my computer by me, so I couldn’t do a resume. Anyway, thanks for sharing, I can’t wait to use this trick next time I have an unreasumable download.
Hi , I had to reinstall my IDM cause it had some problems but before uninstalling it I went to the IDM file in the “AppData” to copy an incomplete download cause I don’t want to restart this download , but after reinstalling IDM and retrieving the file to it’s place in “AppData” I couldn’t find it in IDM , can you help me please ?