

Replace FILE_URL with the full http link of the online document and anyone can view your file in the browser itself. You can use this web viewer to view online files without having to download the files to your computer. Google Drive includes a built-in web viewer so people can view your shared files - from Microsoft Office documents to videos to AutoCAD drawings - directly in their browser. This is common knowledge but Google Drive has plenty of URL tricks up its sleeve that will make these simple Drive links even more powerful. Open any file in Google Drive, click the Share button and you’ll get a URL (link) that others can use to access your file. With Google Drive, you can store files in the cloud and share them easily with anyone. If this guide helped you, please share it.Learn about secret URL tricks for Google Drive to quickly create direct download links, copy or preview shared files in Drive.

If you have questions, please leave a comment below, and we’ll do our best to answer them. That ends our guide on how to fix Google Drive if it won’t download files on your computer. Make sure to check Google’s status page from time to time so you’ll be updated when a problem is reported. We suggest downloading your files some other time and see if the same issue occurs. If you still can’t download files from Google Drive, there might be an unreported problem with the service.

Go back to Google Drive to check if the problem is solved.
