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[Ratso]

I've noticed over the years that a lot of users have had issues with Mega downloads freezing. Now I'd never experienced that myself until a few weeks ago. I've tried using different browsers, but the freezing still happens. Typically I keep resetting, and eventually the download will finish.

Has anyone else had this problem, and more importantly found a way to beat it?
 

[deutros]

I've had the freezing problem a number of times the worst was one froze as it decrypted so painful,  it usually d/l super fast and other times so slow. But fingers crossed it's behaving itself for the time being.

[RAM]

Ratso,

I've experienced this problem for the last 6 weeks or so... maybe a little more.
I switch between Chrome and Edge but it makes no difference. Like you, I just keep trying and eventually the download works.

Cheers,
RAM

[deutros]

Whenever I encounter these problems I just hearken back to the days of Dial-Up anyone miss that. 

[SunnyToo]

Dial-Up. That would have been LUXURY.

Back in the day (late 1970s) when I was doing Fortran/Cobol programming I used a portable teletype through an acoustic coupler to access our work mainframe from home. No screen involved. Just keyboard and printer. Transfer rate was measured in Bits per second; not kilobits, megabits or gigabits; just plain Bits. And after you'd finished whatever you were being paid to do you could relax with a text based adventure game:

"You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully...". [If you're of a certain age and were involved in mainframe computing you'll know what I'm talking about.]

[Guy]

Sounds a little like Transylvania (my favourite text based adventure game when I was just starting to use computers in the classroom)

[Guy]

Being happening to me as well - with multiple attempts required. I thought it was just me and my flakey Internet feed.

Not sure if you realise that Edge and Chrome retain failed downloads within their cache folders (within your PC's user profile), which can quickly fill your Hard Drive over time.

I clean mine out on a regular basis, and have freed up Gigabytes of space at a time.  So I guess I need to explain how to do this in Windows OS (not sure about MACs).  You will need to ensure that Hidden Items is ticked within the View TAB in Windows Explorer to be able to do the following

Note: Don't delete any folder structures while you are doing this.

EDGE

Open the USERS folder on your C: Drive and find your Profile Folder (Username), and open it.
Find the APPDATA folder (usually hidden) and open it
Open LOCAL folder
Find the MICROSOFT folder and open it
Find the EDGE folder and open it
Open USER DATA folder
Find the DEFAULT folder and open it
Find the FILE SYSTEM folder and open it
You should now see multiple folders named:  000, 001, 002 ........etc
If any of these numbered folders have a P folder within them (you need to look in each), then this is where you will find old residual files no longer being used.
Open the P folder and then any numbered folders inside it. 
Residual files will be typically named with lots of leading 0's and then a digit  (ie. 00000007 ) They are labelled as FILE with a SIZE in KB
These can be safely deleted without harming your computer and will free up lost space.

CHROME

Open the USERS folder on your C: Drive and find your Profile Folder (Username), and open it.
Find the APPDATA folder (usually hidden) and open it
Open LOCAL folder
Find the GOOGLE folder and open it
Find the CHROME folder and open it
Open USER DATA folder
Find the DEFAULT folder and open it
Find the FILE SYSTEM folder and open it
You should now see multiple folders named:  000, 001, 002 ........etc
If any of these numbered folders have a P folder within them, then this is where you will find old residual files no longer being used.
Open the P folder and then any numbered folders inside it. 
Residual files will be typically named with lots of leading 0's and then a digit  (ie. 00000007 ) They are labelled as FILE with a SIZE in KB
These can be safely deleted without harming your computer and will free up lost space.
 
From what I can gather, restarting your PC does not house clean these residual files which is really annoying.

[Ratso]

I remember that one. You had to show a ring to a sarcophagus to find the princess. What a blast from the past!

[SunnyToo]

I use MEGA for all my posts so I'm sorry if people are having issues.

Personally I don't have any of the issues that have been referred to but I use it in a somewhat different way.

If you have a Mega account - you can sign up for a free 20GB account - you can then install the MegaSync application, which allows you to synchronize a folder (or folders) on your computer with your Mega account. When you click on a link to Mega you get an option to download or copy to a synchonized folder in your Mega account. The download is then handled by the MegaSync app rather than your browser. I've found this be both reliable and fast. MegaSync is available for Windows, Mac & Linux.

I know it sounds like a bit of a stuff around but it works well for me.

[Ratso]

Like I said Sunny, I've used Mega for years without any problems, and this issue is recent but can be overcome with patience. I'm not that patient, and that is down to me. Please keep using Mega if it works for you.