Windows 10: Can you resume downloads the next day in Windows 10/Edge?

I say Windows 10/Edge as I'm not sure whether it's windows or edge that gives you the download box at the bottom of the screen with: 'pause', 'cancel' and 'view download'.

I'm half way through a big download but need to turn the computer off. In the past, when I've paused the download, turned the system off and tried to resume the next day, it was gone.

Is it even possible to do this?

Thanks!

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Resume downloads with Edge?

In contrast to IE the Edge browser seems to have no way to resume an aborted download. If there was some network hiccup or similar and the download failed, then there is no easy way to simply restart that download other then to navigate back to the page and re-trigger the download (which may require to re-authenticate to the page or reenter some form data or other annoyances).

On IE's download page there used to be an option "Resume" (if the download did not complete) and "Redownload" (or similar) if the download had completed next to each listed file.

Has anybody found a way of making these options appear in Edge as well?

 

How to resume download in Edge brwoser

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I understand that you would like to know how to resume the download in Microsoft Edge.
We will assist you.

I suggest you to refer to the response created by Vianyil and check if it helps to resolve the issue.

Edge won't resume downloads

Hope the information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be happy to help.

Thank you.

 

Resume downloads with Edge?

Not what you asked but at least this is a viable workaround:

I use Microsoft Download Manager for my downloads, an old original MS tool that is no longer developed and updated (last version is from 2011). It still works perfectly. Download it here: Download Microsoft Download Manager from Official Microsoft Download Center

When installed, you'll find it in Start menu in M > Microsoft Download Manager.

Now copy any download link:





Click New download and paste the link, click OK:





Download starts:





All active downloads will be automatically suspended when you close the Download Manager, and resumed when it will be run again. You can also suspend and resume downloads manually:





An annoying bug in a few last few Windows Insider Skip Ahead builds is that context menu copy / cut / paste / copy link in Edge are not working. I am sure that issue will be resolved quite in the near future, but at the moment although using Edge as my main browser, I use another browser to get download links copied.