Question Can't download from Google Drive

[aliceinseattle]

Hi. Hope you can help me with this. So, like lots of folks, decided to use my phone to create a video. Works great, uploads smoothly to Google Drive. But Google Drive will not let me download it. When I click download, all I get is a link, a 2K file. And that won't even run. This is with all the default permissions attendant to my Google account.

 

[aliceinseattle]

Well, I did find a workaround. But I would still like to know how to get Google Drive to work. I transferred the file from Google Drive to iCloud Drive and downloaded to my PC from iCloud Drive.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! How did you try to download the video? By tapping the 3-dot menu button associated with it and selecting Download? When I do that for a video, it downloads fully to the Download folder without difficulty.

Can you show a screenshot of the menu you're using to download the video?

 

[aliceinseattle]

I will do that.

 

[aliceinseattle]

Hi. Hope you can help me with this. So, like lots of folks, decided to use my phone to create a video. Works great, uploads smoothly to Google Drive. But Google Drive will not let me download it. When I click download, all I get is a link, a 2K file. And that won't even run. This is with all the default permissions attendant to my Google account.

Well, the issue is moot now. I tried it on a new Windows 11 machine and it recognizes the videos right off my phone, which my old Win 10 PC wouldn't. Thanks B. Diddy!