diff --git a/utils.py b/utils.py
index 38066ed0..cf0f083a 100644
--- a/utils.py
+++ b/utils.py
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ def decodenewlines(txt):
 #==================================================================#
 #  Downloads sharded huggingface checkpoints using aria2c if possible
 #==================================================================#
-def aria2_hook(pretrained_model_name_or_path: str, force_download=False, cache_dir=None, proxies=None, resume_download=False, local_files_only=False, use_auth_token=None, user_agent=None, revision=None, mirror=None, **kwargs):
+def aria2_hook(pretrained_model_name_or_path: str, force_download=True, cache_dir=None, proxies=None, resume_download=False, local_files_only=False, use_auth_token=None, user_agent=None, revision=None, mirror=None, **kwargs):
     import transformers
     import transformers.modeling_utils
     from huggingface_hub import HfFolder
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ def aria2_hook(pretrained_model_name_or_path: str, force_download=False, cache_d
     with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile("w+b", delete=False) as f:
         f.write(aria2_config)
         f.flush()
-        p = subprocess.Popen(["aria2c", "-x", "10", "-s", "10", "-j", "10", "--disable-ipv6", "--file-allocation=none", "-d", _cache_dir, "-i", f.name, "-U", transformers.file_utils.http_user_agent(user_agent)] + (["-c"] if not force_download else []) + ([f"--header='Authorization: Bearer {token}'"] if use_auth_token else []), stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+        p = subprocess.Popen(["aria2c", "-x", "10", "-s", "10", "-j", "10", "--disable-ipv6", "--file-allocation=trunc", "-d", _cache_dir, "-i", f.name, "-U", transformers.file_utils.http_user_agent(user_agent)] + (["-c"] if not force_download else []) + ([f"--header='Authorization: Bearer {token}'"] if use_auth_token else []), stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
         for line in p.stdout:
             print(line.decode(), end="", flush=True)
         path = f.name