How to Resume YouTube Video Uploads

Here’s a quick tip if you upload videos to YouTube regularly or every now and then.

It can be frustrating when you are uploading your video and it gets hopelessly stuck for whatever reason, particularly if it is a large video given that you can upload up to 20GB (provided your account is enabled for video uploads exceeding fifteen minutes). Fortunately, if you’re using a compatible browser,

The most important thing to keep in mind is if you do encounter a stalled upload do not delete it from your video list.

If you’re using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox you can easily recover a stalled download by going back to the upload page and selecting the same file to upload. If everything goes according to plan the progress bar should jump back up to where it had stalled and get on its merry way.

Users of Internet Explorer have a further prerequisite of having Silverlight installed on their computer (most users of later versions of Windows will have this installed). Otherwise, the functionality works in the same fashion as for Chrome or Firefox.

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