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Last night I was downloading some large Wiktionary dump files while browsing and then closed my laptop lid when I went to sleep, forgetting about the downloads.

Now I'd like to resume the downloads without wasting the bandwidth of starting them over again. Annoyingly, Chrome only lets you resume a download if you first clicked pause, not when something else went wrong.

The thing is, I can't seem to find the partially downloaded files anywhere. I've checked Windows's download folder and the folder I thought I saved them to, and I've searched the hard drive for parts of the filenames and for the expected extension, .crdownload.

Does Google Chrome on Win7 put such files somewhere or mangle their names somehow? Is it possible it just throws them away?

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See comment by matt under the accepted answer, possible duplicate of Does Chrome's Download Manager resume downloads if the connection is lost or closed? – Moab Apr 20 '12 at 16:11

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