Downloading Google Data Archives with IE?

[Hooobi]

Anyone had any luck with this? Google created a two part archive (due to size) that is something like 4MB and 5.25GB, respectively. When I go do download the first of these in IE, it sends it into some kind of infinite refresh loop with the url changing constantly, and nothing downloading as far as I can tell (no option to right-click, Save As...).

Finally had to close IE to get it to stop, and when I go back it claims that one has been downloaded, but it hasn't. Don't really want to install another browser just to download the archive.

Thoughts?

 

[ninaholic37]

Google Data Archives? Is that an archive of things you uploaded through Google?

 

[Hooobi]

It's an archive of your google account(s). You can select one or more of gmail, picasa, calendar, contacts, etc. to be included in the archive and download it as a zip file.

 

[ninaholic37]

Ahh! This might be a shot in the dark, but my sister was trying to download something in IE once and nothing was happening, and it turned out that there was a tiny message on top saying "Internet Explorer blocked a pop-up" and you had to click on it and select "Allow" before it would download.

Apparently you only have 5 tries before the archive expires though. :awe:

 

[Hooobi]

Yup, likely some kind of security setting on my desktop. Worked just fine on my laptop. Thanks!