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DzungVu
Copper Contributor
Jul 21, 2020

Mega.co.nz causes Edge to crash and trouble finding its download folder

Hi, so I was browsing Mega.co.nz using Edge InPrivate. Everytime my download quota reached about 2 GB, Mega will cause my Edge to crash. I went to C:\Users\[MyUsernname]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edg...
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Conner Starkel
Copper Contributor
Dec 05, 2020

I also encountered this issue. There seems to be an issue with Edge and files from MEGA that are greater than 1 GB. I encountered crashes multiple times in InPrivate mode when downloading a 1.24 GB file. Always crashed shortly after downloading 1 GB of the file. 

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HotCakeX
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Dec 05, 2020

Conner Starkel 

Conner Starkel wrote:

I also encountered this issue. There seems to be an issue with Edge and files from MEGA that are greater than 1 GB. I encountered crashes multiple times in InPrivate mode when downloading a 1.24 GB file. Always crashed shortly after downloading 1 GB of the file. 

does it only happen in inPrivate mode?

don't have access to any file larger than 1 GB on mega to test it

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    Conner Starkel
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 06, 2020

    HotCakeX Yes the issue only occurs for me when in InPrivate mode. Downloading outside of InPrivate mode had zero issues whatsoever. 

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      LoFi_GiRL
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 31, 2023

      C:\Users\LoFi-Girl\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\File System\000\p\00 

      But it's been 3yrs don't know if it coud help.

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