| Downloads not starting | Gruven | 1/1/09 6:35 PM | As of today when I go to download any file in Chrome all I get is "starting" yet nothing happens. I have uninstalled/reinstalled Chrome and cleared all settings related to Chrome and my download history with no success.2009-01-02 Let me also say that |
| Re: Downloads not starting | txjudo | 1/4/09 10:08 AM | I have been getting the same error. No downloads are starting. This actually started happening yesterday from what I can tell. |
| Re: Downloads not starting | Gruven | 1/5/09 7:49 PM | I can't believe no one can help with this problem. Chrome is suckin' right about now. |
| Re: Downloads not starting | Shawn (Googler) | 1/6/09 4:47 PM | Hey guys, We're aware of this issue and are working on it. You can view status updates in the below report. Shawn |
| Re: Downloads not starting | Jazh | 2/28/09 11:46 AM | This issue seems to continue, the "Starting" issue seems to occur on the second file being downloaded when attempting to download multiple files. |
| Re: Downloads not starting | HKinks | 12/5/09 11:04 AM | almost 10 months passed, yet this issue occurs for me with some downloads. |
| Re: Downloads not starting | Ranch | 1/22/10 8:14 PM | I having the same issue. Its just saying Starting but nothing happen. I have to open some links for more than 5 or 6 times to get them to start downloading. Annoying part is that I have to go and delete the ghost files Chrome created every time! |
| Re: Downloads not starting | Gruven | 1/22/10 11:02 PM | Google has their heads up their backside. I ended up doing a clean win7 install and that fixed it |
| Re: Downloads not starting | p33pm3 | 3/20/10 8:01 AM | I've got the same issue too. I cleared out the browsing data but issue persisted. After checking, my default download directory is to my secondary drive which is already at 0MB free space. Clearing the browsing data had no effect at all since it was |
| Re: Downloads not starting | markhi43 | 2/17/11 1:14 AM | This problem has been pissing me off for ages!! I have a solution that worked for me, after trawling through forums to no avail!! Settings>Options>Under The Bonnet tab>Scroll down to downloads and change download location to elsewhere. Myn was set |
| Re: Downloads not starting | tann98 | 3/12/11 9:11 PM | I had this problem, but I found out that it was just that where I was trying to download the files to didn't have enough space for most of the files I tried to download. I hope this helps. :) |