People access YouTube worldwide, Right from cooking recipes, to online classes. From watching funny dance videos to making money by uploading the dance videos, YouTube became a part of everyone's day-to-day life. But recently we could see an error called an error occurred, please try again later on YouTube.
This is an annoying error, which prevents the users from watching YouTube videos. There might be many reasons for the occurrence of this error. Here, in this article, let us discuss a few of them and how to resolve the error; an error occurred please try again.
Possible reasons for the error an error occurred, please try again.
Let's discuss some of the possible reasons why this error occurs and provide solutions to resolve it.
1. Corrupted Shockwave Flash add-on
The corrupted flash add-on can be one reason for; an error occurred please try again error. These corrupted drivers contain some malware files that do not make your system accessing the websites.
2. Outdated hardware driver
Outdated hardware drivers such as audio drivers will cause the problem that doesn't allow YouTube to play seamlessly.
3. Corrupted browser files
When you download files that contain malware; it will affect the functioning of your system. These files damage your windows programs and drivers, finally end up with these errors. Hence, before downloading any browser files, it is important to scan them for viruses, if it's an emergency to download them without going for the virus, then you have to delete those files after use, and also you need to clear the caches that the file stored on your device.
4. Interrupted Internet connection
This is the primary reason for the error; an error occurred, please try again. If you have a poor internet connection, it will not allow your YouTube to load the video, and therefore it throws an error called, an error occurred please try again.
5. Third-party antivirus
Some third-party antivirus applications block the sites, check if the antivirus application blocked YouTube, try to disable antivirus, and check if the error still occurs.
6. Cookies
A cookie is a piece of information that the browser stores on the user's computer. Sometimes the cookies code interrupts the computer programs and consumes a part of computer's hardware devices that makes some applications interrupt with cookies to gain control of the hardware devices and drivers.
How do I Fix An Error Occurred, Please Try Again
To fix the "an error occurred, please try again" error, you can follow these steps:
1. Change site settings
We have an optional setting in Firefox called Forget About This Site. We can use this option to delete the site cookies, as well as saved passwords that we have stored at the computers' cache and all the cookies information that the cache contains.
Follow the below-mentioned steps to enable the option Forget About This Site.
- Open the Firefox browser and here open the history of the browser by clicking on the three dots on the top of the window or simply by pressing (
Ctrl + H).
- Now go to the YouTube link in the browsing history by navigating through the sites that you opened.
- Right-click on the YouTube link, this will open a pop-up, now choose to
Forget About This Site here.
2. Change DNS Server Addresses
Sometimes, if you could connect to the DNS, the problem of connecting to a network might occur
Follow the below-mentioned steps to configure another DNS server address:
- Now you need to right-click on the network icon, you could see Open Network & Internet settings in the menu open this. Now navigate to the Change adapter settings.
- You will see a new window. Click on the network connection item. Mostly, this will be NVIDIA (Ethernet as shown in the figure) now click on
Properties.
- Here, you have to select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and then click the Properties button available at the bottom right side corner of the window.
- It will display you with 4 check-boxes, Choose to Use the following DNS server addresses and then set the Preferred DNS server as 1.1.1.1 and the Alternate DNS server to 8.8.8.8. Click on OK.
Now check if it resolved the issue.
3. Update Your Graphics Driver
As we’ve discussed, outdated drivers are one of the main issues that cause the error; an error occurred, please try again later on YouTube. Updating the driver is one of the best solution.
To update the drivers automatically, follow the below-mentioned steps:
- Press (
Windows + X) key, select Windows PowerShell. You will enter a screen, type verifier, here, and hit enter. After the operation completes, it will launch a Driver verifier Manager.
- Now, select the option Create standard settings from the options panel and click on Next.
- Choose Automatically select all drivers installed on this computer, then click on Next.
- After this, the PC will automatically restart and if there are internal driver errors, it will display them solving these errors will rectify the problem.
To update the drivers manually, follow the steps mentioned below:
- Go to search, then go to Device Manager, this displays a list of devices that are installed on your computer.
- Right-click on the devices which you find problematic and then click on Properties.
- Click Driver and click on Update Driver.
- Click on Search automatically for updated driver software.
- After then restart your computer
4. Check Firewall, and Antivirus software
The Antivirus and Firewall sometimes obstruct certain internet connections. We don't recommend disabling the Disable Antivirus and Firewall for security reasons, but you can ensure the internet is working by temporarily disabling it.
Disable Firewall:
A firewall obstructs the browser of your system from connecting to the web if it finds some vulnerability. Sometimes, it might detect some wrong info, so in this case, disabling the firewall could help us.
Go to the Control Panel, Click on System and Security and then click on Windows Firewall.
You will see a pop-up where you need to click to Turn Windows Firewall on or off.
Select Turn off Windows Firewall and Click Ok, then apply and reboot your PC.
Conclusion:
The article briefly discusses an error that occurred please try again later on YouTube, the reasons for its occurrence, and also how to resolve the error. Hope you will get some help from the above methods.
