Hi,
This is beyond any frustration to be honest and given that this “newest” version is being paid for a bit outrages because I do not see even single reply from the dev team here to any of the people sharing this issue.
This is an ongoing issue spanning for days. There is no indication that the Devs are even aware of this and they have their statuses all green/good
Prompt: Let’s try to generate a small sample file with 100 words in it. Don’t worry about formatting or structure. Start with a txt file
Response: It appears the issue persists even with a small, simple text file. The core problem seems to be with the file service responsible for generating download links, regardless of the file type or size.
Since I’m unable to generate a link for even the smallest of files, the issue likely lies deeper within the system’s file-sharing mechanism.
I’ll remain ready to assist with any content needs you have, but for the time being, file generation and direct transfer appear to be blocked. Thank you for your patience as we work through this!
# Creating a small sample text file with 100 words
sample_text = "This is a sample text file containing exactly 100 words for testing purposes. The purpose of this file is to determine if the file generation and download link process can function correctly. Each sentence in this file will contribute to the overall word count, ensuring that the total number of words reaches one hundred. If this small test is successful, it may provide insights into any issues that were encountered with generating larger files or more complex formats, such as a Word document. Testing continues with random text here."
# Save the text file
file_path = "/mnt/data/sample_text_file.txt"
with open(file_path, "w") as file:
file.write(sample_text)
file_path
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26th September, confirming for the last 2 weeks I also get this error intermittently, where ChatGPT Plus is unable to create the link for the download.
27th September. It had provided me with a bunch of different excel template attempts for a very detailed checklist I am putting together and all of a sudden it told me that the file management tool is having issues and receives the following error: GetDownloadLinkError
Seems like this is a long running issue and this is functionality that I pay the monthly fee for.
Sept. 29th - Issue still persists. Issue still an obstacle to any work on the platform.
Also having the same issue - not able to download files I’ve uploaded. Would be good to have a ‘download’ option within the custom gpt settings.
Same issue. Files get generated if yyou can print it on console. If not, it’s unavailable.
On 18th September I used ChatGPT to create a few CSV files, which I successfully downloaded. Now they’re showing as “Unable to display visualisation”, and when I try to create new ones it replies with
It seems the issue with generating download links persists. While I work on resolving this, you can try later or let me know if you’d like to proceed with any other tasks in the meantime.
This is in the ChatGPT app for macOS
Has there been any update on this? I recently became a paying member and have been waiting a good time for ChatGPT to generate the files I need, only to find out it cannot generate a download link for them?
I hae the same problems, it’s look like that if you start the session first time and you work on it, then chatgpt can generate different files without any problem. When you leave the session and cointinue next day, then chatgpt is not more able to generate anything, just in the prompt. It’s look like that the session is not more valid after some time.
So I can confirm that starting a brand new session and giving it the material to create a docx file format actually worked, though it wasn’t able to do it in a thread that’s already been utilized for several days It seems like a weird bug for some reason that if you’re trying to ask for a file to be generated and an old. thread that it doesn’t seem to be able to do so though starting a new session allows it to. allows it to work for some reason.
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I found another workaround to this issue. If in your main thread where you’re creating the document you have details shown where you can see the code that is written to generate the document, you can copy that code into a new thread and have it create the document independently in its own thread. And this usually seems to work.
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Hi Timothy, You can also write to the old CHATGPT session which has to PERMANENTLY save the data in the system, then you will have it available also in the new session. This was working well for me, but you need to check and verify if it’s missing something !! Always!
Yes, this workaround is working! I was also using it many times in the past.
I cannot download any files either. Would be great to have on update on this as this is such an important feature.
I found another workaround to this issue. If in your main thread where you’re creating the document you have details shown where you can see the code that is written to generate the document, you can copy that code into a new thread and have it create the document independently in its own thread. And this usually seems to work.
This doesn’t work for me. The new thread does give me a download link but when I try to use it from chatGPT I get a “File not found error”
Thanks! Starting a new session resolved this issue for me 
How do I see this code? I can’t seem to find where to find it.