Download not opening with =1 change of link.

[thomashayden]

Before I could enable it so I the share link of a file I could change to =1 at the end and it would initiate the download.

It is still doing that but it's opening in a strange window instead of staying in the current window... 

Anyone else experienced this issue? Is there a fix?

[Nancy]

Thanks for posting here, @thomashayden!

As a first, can you send a screenshot of the new window that now pops up on your screen? 

I’d like to have a look and check this further.

[thomashayden]

Hey there, 

Please see screenshot here:

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As you can see instead of initiating the download, it opens a blank page with the download... Very strange.

Works fine apart from Safari browser.

[Jay]

Hi @thomashayden, could you copy and paste the screenshot directly into your post instead of via a shared link?

Have you tried using a different browser to see if the behavior is different when downloading files?

[thomashayden]

[thomashayden]

There you go. It wasn't letting me before.

Like I said, in Google it works fine. Safari is the issue.

[Jay]

Just to check, this is the normal window to save files from the web. Is the window not going away when you click the Save button?

[thomashayden]

Nope, it's keeping me on a blank page.

when i use dl=1 it should initiate download on the same page, but it creates that from what I showed you.

[Jay]

Could you try using Safari in private browsing mode, without any extensions running, to see if this issue occurs again?