{"id":186,"date":"2020-02-17T16:37:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/metashare-help-user-manual-how-to-download-documents\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T11:34:33","slug":"how-to-download-documents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/usermanual\/manage-documents\/how-to-download-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"How to download documents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/usermanual\/how-to-select-deselect-documents\/\">Select one or several documents<\/a> and click on the &#8220;Download&#8221; function, on the horizontal toolbar:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"463\" class=\"wp-image-12109\" style=\"width: 800px\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-download-documents_select_download.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-download-documents_select_download.png 1280w, https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-download-documents_select_download-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-download-documents_select_download-1024x370.png 1024w, https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-to-download-documents_select_download-768x278.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><br>From the documents tab in <a href=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/usermanual\/metashares-start-page\/\">MetaShare&#8217;s start page<\/a>, you can currently only select one document at a time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Depending on which browser you use, you will get different options when downloading files:\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In Microsoft Edge, at the bottom of the page, you will be asked what you want to do with a downloaded file:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"77\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-774.png\" alt=\"Microsoft Edge - what do you want to do with a downloaded file\"><br>Click on &#8220;Save&#8221; and optionally choose location where you would like to download your file (the default location for a file download is the standard Download folder).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In Google Chrome, the file is automatically downloaded to your standard Download folder and from there you can select to open the file or the folder:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"417\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-771.png\" alt=\"Google Chrome - what do you want to do with a downloaded file\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In Firefox, you will be asked what you want to do with a downloaded file:<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"431\" height=\"317\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-776.png\" alt=\"Firefox - what do you want to do with a downloaded file\"><br>Select the radio button &#8220;Save File&#8221; and click on the &#8220;OK&#8221; button. Optionally you can save your preference. The file is automatically downloaded to your standard Download folder. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The document(s) will be downloaded to the folder.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":10670,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-186","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12111,"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186\/revisions\/12111"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}