Why cant i download files out of gmail?

Tried clearing cache, disabling antivirus and ESET smart security web, and all email protection, still no luck. Can anybody tell me, if there is any other way? If you cannot download attachments from your Gmail account in chrome, firefox, or any other browser, then a quick way is to solve the problem is by taking help a third-party software. Utilities like SysTools Gmail backup tool allows user to extract attachments from Gmail in bulk.

Users can easily save Gmail emails with attachments as PDF on the local computer and use the attached files for their work. This way you will get emails and their attachment in order and will help you in easily sharing or accessing these attachment files.

There are generally three catalysts for Google Drive errors: your user account, your browser, or your Mac or even a combination of these.

Surprisingly, Google Drive gives you several methods for downloading any file. So while there might be a glitch with one of them, others might work as usual. Fourth, if you double-click on photos and PDFs, or if you choose Preview from the top menu for any other file, you can then click the download icon at the top. Fifth, when you try to download a few files at once, Google Drive will create a zip archive.

There are instances where this archive could fail to download. To fix this, close the Google Drive tab — it will give you a warning that files were not saved, select Leave and the download should start properly. To fix this, log out of all Google accounts. Then only log back in with the account that should have access to the file you want to download and try again. The permission errors should now be resolved.

So clearing them both could help. The problem is that the process for each browser is quite different and making sure you delete all cached files and cookies is not easy. Using an old or maybe a beta version? Open Gmail on your smartphone and check if you can compose, attach files, and then send the email.

There are so many ways to transfer files between desktop and mobile. Finish that email and then come back to read the next point. Clearing browser cache and data can help with many browser-related issues, including the one you face where Gmail will not attach files to your email. There is a nifty little shortcut to clear browser cache if you are using Chrome or Chromium browser. All browsers have this feature in the settings too. Unable to attach files to Gmail on Android? Clearing app cache and data can help on smartphones.

Don't worry for it will not delete your emails or any other data. All that data is stored on Google servers remotely. You will need to sign back into Gmail and allow it to sync, which shouldn't take long.

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. I don't know if you still encounter the problem, but in my case it was caused by my adblocker Block This! I couldn't download attachments from either Google Drive app or Gmail, but it worked after i whitelisted them in my adblocker app. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Adam CodeTwo. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks.

Hi, Recently some of my mail users have reported that they no longer can download attachment from mails in the gmail app on android phones and this is only the case with their Exchange mail and not their private gmail account.