Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your FDMDOWNLOAD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert FDMDOWNLOAD to another file type
To convert FDMDOWNLOAD Downloads to another format, you need Free Download Manager or other Data software.
Convert a file to FDMDOWNLOAD
To convert other file formats to the "Incomplete Download File" file type, you need software like Free Download Manager or a similar tool.
About FDMDOWNLOAD files
An .fdmdownload file is a temporary placeholder generated by Free Download Manager (FDM). It stores partial data for an active, paused, or interrupted download on your system. Typically, this file is managed exclusively by Free Download Manager, which appends this extension to the original file name (for example, video.mkv.fdmdownload) until the transfer reaches 100 percent. The main disadvantage of the .fdmdownload format is that it is structurally incomplete. Users often want to convert it when a download gets stuck at 99 percent and they desperately need the actual data. Because the file lacks closing headers and metadata required by standard applications, normal software will report the file as corrupted. You cannot magically convert missing data. The best target format is simply the file's original intended format, such as ZIP, RAR, MKV, or EXE. If you force a conversion by renaming the file to its original extension, be aware that you will likely lose data at the end of the file, and archives may refuse to extract without specialized recovery tools like WinRAR. Because this is an unfinished file segment managed by a specific client, standard online converters fail to process it. Our analysis can inspect the raw bytes of your .fdmdownload file to detect the supported embedded format header, allowing you to see what the file was supposed to be and attempt recovery of the partial data.
Convert.Guru analyzes your FDMDOWNLOAD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert FDMDOWNLOAD file to TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD, CRDOWNLOAD, LOCK or PID, you can use Free Download Manager or similar software from the "Temporary Partial Download Placeholder" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to FDMDOWNLOAD, try Free Download Manager or another comparable tool in the "Temporary Partial Download Placeholder" category.
The FDMDOWNLOAD Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our FDMDOWNLOAD converter.