{"version":"2.1.321","anchor":"connector-file-downloads-progress-lines-size-ordering-and","canonical_anchor":"connector-file-downloads-progress-lines-size-ordering-and","heading":"Connector file downloads show progress and skip files already fetched","tier":"notice","area":"Connectors","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321\/e\/connector-file-downloads-progress-lines-size-ordering-and","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321","markdown":"### Connector file downloads show progress and skip files already fetched\n\nConnector downloads now report progress, go smallest first, skip files already downloaded in the conversation and send big images to Read\n\n**What**\n\nWhen Claude Code downloads files from a connector (a link to an outside service), it now:\n\n- reports progress as each download runs\n\n- downloads the smallest files first\n\n- skips a file identical to one already downloaded in the same conversation, and tells Claude it was not downloaded again\n\n- does not show images over a size limit directly, and points Claude to the `Read` tool instead\n\n- reports partly downloaded files that were left behind\n\nBefore, files were downloaded one at a time in the order offered, with no progress and no check for repeats. This applies where the `allow_connector_file_downloads` policy permits connector downloads.\n\n**Why**\n\nRepeated files no longer waste time and space, and you can see how a long download is going.\n\n- Area: Connectors\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}