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How do you resume an interrupted download in Apple Safari?Dave, you've said in a different article (see Download managers that allow resumption of interrupted downloads) that Apple's Safari browser has that as an option for its download manager. Just right-click on an interrupted download in the "Download Window". I'm a bit confused, because I have Safari on a Mac with OSX tiger. When I control-click there is NO option in the window to resume download. Please clarify as you said Safari can do this. How can i resume an interrupted download? I'm not sure what version you're running, but in the version of Safari I have on my Mac OS X system ("Version 4 Public Beta") it definitely does have the capability you're talking about. Before we go there, though, readers may be wondering why might you want to be able to resume downloads? The answer is in two words: big files. Yeah, when you're downloading 72Kbyte images or even 1.3MB PDF files, you probably don't need to be able to resume a download, but if you're getting larger files, like videos or even software, it's common to be requesting 50MB, 100MB or even larger files. Heck, when I downloaded the release candidate for Microsoft Windows 7, the file was over 2GB. Even on a fast connection that's a multi-hour download! When you have these huge files, it's quite possible that something will glitch or hiccup, causing you to end up with an interrupted download. Do you panic and start over? Hopefully not!! This can also happen when you're on a laptop and start a download, not realizing it'll take a long time. A perfect opportunity to pause the download, go home, and finish up. In all these cases both Safari and Firefox have your back, though I was surprised and disappointed that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 doesn't have this capability that I could find though it's possible that if you have a partial download and restart it the program resumes where it left off. By comparison, though, Safari and Firefox make it a lot easier to understand what's going on... So here's a typical download in Safari: ![]() To pause or stop it, click on the small "X" button to the right of the progress bar. Now you'll see that it's stopped and it'll show you how far you made it: ![]() To resume, click on the circular arrow that's replaced the "x" button. Within a few seconds it'll reconnect and resume the download: ![]() By contrast, Firefox does this slightly differently. Here's a download in progress: ![]() To pause it, click on the little button with the two vertical bars. Now you'll see: ![]() To resume the download, click the ">" play button and it'll resume. If you click on the "X" button instead, you'll find that you've cancelled the download: ![]() To resume a cancelled download (which is a nice feature!) click on the circular arrow button (a la Safari). Either way, when it resumes, you're back to the usual download progress window: ![]() That should get you going and keep you resuming anything that's too darn big to download at once!
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Tagged: apple safari, downloads, file management, mozilla firefox Previous: Why can't my wife's Toshiba Vista laptop startup normally any more? Next: How can I add a new user in Microsoft Windows Vista? Reader Comments To Date: 22William F. Brabenec said, on July 18, 2009 7:44 AM:
Robert Lozano is correct. Every time I've clicked on the circular arrow, it's started back at square one. I'm running 10.4.11. Son said, on October 23, 2009 1:07 AM:
Yeah! If i click on the resume button for mac, it starts over again. Dave Taylor said, on October 26, 2009 10:15 AM:
I've seen the same behavior lately in Safari too, which makes me wonder if I was hallucinating when I thought it was restarting an existing download rather than starting over. :-( I do not know of any way that you can have resumable downloads from within Safari now... Rachelle said, on May 31, 2010 8:27 PM:
Doesnt work, starts the download from the very beginning! Joel said, on July 9, 2010 12:19 PM:
The resume works for me. I'm on 10.6.3 and currently downloading a 2.06 GB SDK on a slow connection using Safari. When I stop it and click resume (control-click) it continues where it was (so not restarting). I haven't restarted the computer yet, maybe then it loses it's current status and restarts? Cheers Joel said, on July 9, 2010 9:46 PM:
Yep, after restarting the computer it loses the possibility to resume the download unfortunately. gg said, on July 16, 2010 8:36 PM:
You were hallucinating, Safari never had this capability. Jasimo said, on November 17, 2010 12:54 AM:
yeah some files can be resume but some not..don't know why... Anna Brooks said, on February 7, 2011 2:19 AM:
You can also resume broken downloads using Folx- free download manager for Mac (http://mac.eltima.com/download-manager.html) Flint Stone said, on March 7, 2011 11:21 AM:
For all those using Safari: there is a "Resume" option if you right click on the interrupted file in the download window. wez said, on June 27, 2011 10:35 PM:
PEOPLE! you can always just go to the download directory (right click downloading file->show in folder)--double click on the .download file in that folder (the one with safari logo on it) and it will resume. i had a 4gb file downloading and i shut down so i had to resume it this way. ful said, on July 15, 2011 12:09 PM:
works! thank you virtualgeezer said, on December 22, 2011 1:59 PM:
Cool just tried Wez's tip! At first it wasn't working for me, so I cleared the contents in the Safari Download window and then tried double clicking on the .download document and voila it continued downloading my epic 4Gb file. Phew! Thanks Wez zaheer said, on January 10, 2012 5:31 AM:
it doesnt work for me it gives error that "SAFARI cant resume this download. download doesnt appear to be valid download file" but it starts downloading from very beginning :( E said, on February 14, 2012 12:36 PM:
Launch Safari THATS IT! This was done in SAFARI 5.1.3 fossda said, on June 11, 2012 12:42 PM:
yeah, safari doesnt pause the download, it starts it over again. which sucks. i thought apple were good. G said, on October 16, 2012 8:57 AM:
I was downloading photos from my iphone to my macbook pro laptop and i accidently interrupted and unplugged the wire. It's been hanging and cannot close iphoto and also wasnt able to download it i think. teigan said, on November 23, 2012 4:48 PM:
he is completely wrong about safari. can't believe this guy is claiming to be an expert and giving advice to people. he is just further proof that the internet is useless. Dave Taylor said, on November 23, 2012 11:49 PM:
Actually, Teigan, if you were to check for just 15 seconds before you jumped in with your summary judgment, you'd find that Safari does indeed still support resumable downloads. Don't believe me? Check out this Apple knowledgebase article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5364 Look especially at how it describes the "orange button" in the download window as one that lets you resume an interrupted download. Yeah, maybe not such useless info after all? :-) PeS said, on January 7, 2013 3:06 PM:
I am sorry, but Dave Taylor is not right. The "orange button" means "resume", but in meaning "start from beginning", not "continue". I have 10.6.8 and behaviour is the same as described by "Rachelle", "son", etc. kay said, on January 11, 2013 7:10 PM:
Dave you are wrong. It starts the download from the beginning.
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wrong... it doesn't resume. It starts from the very beginning.