Choose Download from the menu. The files will begin to download. In Google Drive, select the files or folders that you want to download. Click on the three-dot icon at the top.
If you are trying to download an individual photo or video, open the file. You will see the Download icon at the top-right corner. Click on it to download the file. Hover your mouse over the image, and the Download button will appear.
If you view files in the grid view, the Download button will be present on the file. Click on that to download the file. Alternatively, you can click on the Download all button present at the top as well. For many users, Google Drive gets stuck on Preparing Zip file message only.
To fix that, you need to click on the Leave site button when a pop-up appears that asks whether you want to Leave site or Cancel. Clicking the Leave button starts the download process. We have covered the Google Drive not downloading Zip files issue in detail. Do take a look for other solutions. To enable cookies, open drive. Click on the tiny lock icon present on the left side of the address bar. Then, select Cookies from the list. In the pop-up window that appears, click on the Blocked tab.
Check if you find any link related to Google. Click on that and hit the Allow button at the bottom. Finally, click on Done. Restart the page or the browser, and you should be able to download the files again. When someone sends you a Google Drive link to download files, you need to be signed in with the same account allowed to access those files. Basically, Google Drive file sharing permissions works in two ways. The owner who generates a link for the file or the folder can let anyone with the link access the file.
In that case, any Google account can be used to view or download files. But the owner can also restrict the files to a select few users only based on their email address. In such cases, you need to switch your Google account to the right one. 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. Here's a perl script to download these files in an unattended way. After spending many countless hours trying to get a direct download link that bypasses the virus scan I finally figured it out by accident.
I could not find this documented anywhere here is the official doc so use at your own risk as future updates might break it. Try this. You can also download a file when you're viewing the file.
Go to the File menu, point your mouse to Download as, and select a file format. If total file is above 2GB I don't think you'll be able to download without breaking into batches. Notice the confirm parameter which seems to change every time you go to the original link. Maybe it's a short lived token or cookie matching or something? I simply create a javascript so that it automatically capture the link and download and close the tab with the help of tampermonkey. Sign up to join this community.
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Active 3 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 23k times. Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Did you ever figure this out? Running into the same problem with bigger files. No, I gave up on this. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.
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