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Xan Xan 69k 13 13 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Is it possible to have Chrome append a file to an existing file? I want to do download a file made of fragments, resulting in one complete file instead of multiple fragtments.

But it's a different question; if you still need help, ask a new question. Xan i got this error : Unchecked runtime. Show 6 more comments. Edit afterthought about making your code execute on the content page : The way you make an action occur on the content page rather than your extension is to use Chrome "message passing". Something like this: chrome.

Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Steve Mc Steve Mc 3, 24 24 silver badges 34 34 bronze badges. Deleting the reference to a is not necessary because as a local variable its lost when the function completes. Do you if this still works? Still works, but hit the same problem I was having with chrome downloads. Chrome is not ok with allowing extensions to download multiple files. AmanicA AmanicA 4, 1 1 gold badge 30 30 silver badges 47 47 bronze badges.

For current people: SteveMC's answer no longer works, but this one does. Apoorv Saxena Apoorv Saxena 3, 9 9 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges. The concision is much appreciated, wish I'd noticed it sooner.

Aug 15, -. Jim Mooney. Not in the Download settings anymore. I am forced to go through their crappy player Every Time, when I want to dl a bunch of mp3s.

Screw Chrome. I'm going back to Firefox. I'm tired of fighting a "option" they haven't fixed in years. Aug 17, -. Billy Schlotter. You are right Jim, it is not in the download section anymore. We will update this post to reflect that. You can know just right click on the downloaded item and either uncheck or check 'Always open files of this type.

Oct 13, -. A download link will start an automatic download regardless of the browser. Our site does not start a download till the download button is clicked.

The best solution is to know what you're clicking on and making sure you have an anti-virus installed that will scan each downloaded file. Oct 15, -. Nov 16, -. That doesn't work because I can't download the file. It opens every time. Nov 17, -. The spreadsheet opens and they make their changes. How can I make it so they can edit the document and save it back to SharePoint?

Think I might have answered this myself. This is the way Chrome handles file downloads. Google decided that rather than allowing applications to automatically open files downloaded through Chrome, the files must be downloaded to your local machine.

There is, unfortunately, no workaround for this. If you want to automatically open files from Sharepoint to be worked in and saved back up to SP within the browser, you'll need to use a different browser like IE or Firefox. However, if you simply want the file to download and automatically open the application, see the answer by Tekla.

This will cause Chrome to pass the download over to the associated application. Set the OpenInClient feature for a document library or site collection as mentioned here.

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Remove the downloaded file if it exists and the DownloadItem is complete; otherwise return an error through runtime. Resume a paused download. If the request was successful the download is in progress and unpaused. Find DownloadItem. Set query to the empty object to get all DownloadItem. To get a specific DownloadItem , set only the id field. To page through a large number of items, set orderBy: ['-startTime'] , set limit to the number of items per page, and set startedAfter to the startTime of the last item from the last page.

Enable or disable the gray shelf at the bottom of every window associated with the current browser profile. The shelf will be disabled as long as at least one extension has disabled it. Enabling the shelf while at least one other extension has disabled it will return an error through runtime. When any of a DownloadItem 's properties except bytesReceived and estimatedEndTime changes, this event fires with the downloadId and an object containing the properties that changed.

This event fires with the DownloadItem object when a download begins. During the filename determination process, extensions will be given the opportunity to override the target DownloadItem. Each extension may not register more than one listener for this event. Each listener must call suggest exactly once, either synchronously or asynchronously. If the listener calls suggest asynchronously, then it must return true.

If the listener neither calls suggest synchronously nor returns true , then suggest will be called automatically. The DownloadItem will not complete until all listeners have called suggest.

Listeners may call suggest without any arguments in order to allow the download to use downloadItem. If more than one extension overrides the filename, then the last extension installed whose listener passes a suggestion object to suggest wins.

In order to avoid confusion regarding which extension will win, users should not install extensions that may conflict. If the download is initiated by download and the target filename is known before the MIME type and tentative filename have been determined, pass filename to download instead. The suggest parameter looks like: suggestion? Skip to content. Welcome What's new in Chrome extensions Getting started.

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