diff --git a/utils.py b/utils.py
index 0eb1de28..6acecf3a 100644
--- a/utils.py
+++ b/utils.py
@@ -207,6 +207,11 @@ def aria2_hook(pretrained_model_name_or_path: str, force_download=False, cache_d
         headers["authorization"] = f"Bearer {use_auth_token}"
     etags = [h.get("X-Linked-Etag") or h.get("ETag") for u in urls for h in [requests.head(u, headers=headers, allow_redirects=False, proxies=proxies, timeout=10).headers]]
     filenames = [transformers.file_utils.url_to_filename(u, t) for u, t in zip(urls, etags)]
+    if force_download:
+        for n in filenames:
+            path = os.path.join(_cache_dir, n + ".json")
+            if os.path.exists(path):
+                os.remove(path)
     aria2_config = "\n".join(f"{u}\n  out={n}" for u, n in zip(urls, filenames)).encode()
     with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile("w+b", delete=True) as f:
         f.write(aria2_config)