After splitting my PDF documents, Adobe Acrobat refuses to let me download all the files and comes up with Download Error

Question

After organising my PDFs and splitting the PDFs into multiple files, when I select all files and click download, the download error in the screenshot pops up. I have been able to do this all the time before this error started popping up last week so I’m unsure what has changed. I have to now manually download all the PDFs one by one.

Randy Hagan · Answer

How are you splitting up your large PDF? Are you extracting pages to create new files? Or are you opening the large PDF, deleting pages you don’t want and using the File>Save As… menu command to save your PDF fragments, then returning to the original document to carve off chunks with Open–Delete Pages–Save As then repeat?

You might want to go to the Organize Pages toolset and try to build your smaller chunks as separate PDFs using the Extract Pages command rather than using the original, larger document to repeatedly carve off chunks of it. It’s faster, and often less problematic. If you haven’t already, please give it a try and let us know if it works better for you.

Hope this helps,

Randy

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