Errors

Too many parallel downloads for this viewer

Internal concurrency exception text; clients usually see the account or guest parallel-limit messages instead.

Too many parallel downloads for this viewer

Short internal wording when a download concurrency lease is refused for “this viewer.” Live APIs and the /limit page more often show the account or guest strings below.

Why this happens

Same Simultaneous downloads gate (ul2_sim_dl_*) as the other parallel-limit messages. Handlers typically remap this into Too many parallel downloads for your account or the guest wait message.

Diagnose and fix

1. Treat it like any parallel-slot block: wait for a download to finish, or raise ul2_sim_dl_*.

2. See Too many parallel downloads and Parallel download limit page for the HTML wall.

3. Check nginx edge simultaneous-download if that is enabled.

4. Not a grant rate-limit or per-file download-count issue.

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