How to download from the articles

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When clicking on the download links all I get is an empty Notepad screen.

I'm using The free Download Manager program.

Thanks Guys

Alan

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Nothing...I do not know what to try any help would be appreciated.

Posted 5-Dec-16 0:44am

Alan Jones

Updated 6-Dec-16 1:47am

OriginalGriff

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Thanks for the reply.

What I found was that the ASPX file was not being converted by the IE 11 brouser/server

I used Firefox and Hey Presto the download now functions o.k.

Thank you for the advice it helped.

Alan

Posted 6-Dec-16 1:47am

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-05T01:22:00

Under normal circumstances, you just click on the link in your browser and it works - certainly it does for me - and downloads are normally ZIP files so Notepad would be very inappropriate.
If you hover your mouse over the download link it should give you a full path display - in Chrome it's at the bottom right of the display - and that should tell you the file type. If that says ZIP, then it's the D/L manager that is causing the problem. Try downloading it directly and see if that improves the situation, or report it here Article Writing Discussion Boards[^] including a link to the article and Sean will have a look for you.

Is this just one article? If so, which one and I'll see if it works for me.