The add-ons for Garry’s Mod

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I have a windows 8.1 computer and I just got Garry's Mod yesterday so I decide to add the add-ons to make it more fun. When I downloaded a ragdoll add-on I go to Garry's mod, wait for to finish downloading, then when it's done, I have no ragdolls at all. So I search up "ragdolls" in the search box, nothing happens. Can someone please tell me if I missed something or if I did something wrong?

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First of all: check if the mod appears in the "Addons" section in the main menu.

If it appears, the addon may be broken or does only work for a certain game mode or map. (Which may be very weird for a ragdoll addon)
If it does not appear: the Steam Workshop stores all addon for the game as a .gma file in the following folder: c:\Program files\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod/garrysmod/addons
If the addon does not appears in this folder Steam didn't downloaded it. In this case try to un-subscribe and re-subscribe the mod.

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Posting this question/answer here, since the solution doesn't appear to exist anywhere else (outside of my own steam forums post):

Apparently Garry's Mod uses Internet Explorer somehow for its "FastDL" downloading. If Internet Explorer can't connect to the internet for whatever reason, then Garry's Mod won't download anything.

In my case, IE was set to offline-mode. Setting it to online fixed the issue.

Other things you can try:

Make sure Options --> Multiplayer --> Download Custom Content is set to Allow All Custom Files From Server
Try adding the following lines to the bottom of your garry's mod config file, located at Steam\steamapps\<username>\garrysmod\garrysmod\cfg\config.cfg:
```
cl_allowdownload 1
cl_downloadfilter all
download_debug 0
sv_downloadurl ""
```
Verify the integrity of the game files. Within Steam: Library --> Garry's Mod --> Right Click --> Properties --> Local Files --> "Verify Integrity of Game Cache"
Try disabling your firewall/antivirus, or possibly other non-essential programs/services running.
Try deleting your maps, lua, addons, and cache folders in the garrysmod folder, located at Steam\steamapps\<username>\garrysmod\garrysmod. Then verify your cache again.
As a last resort, uninstall Garry's Mod completely and delete the garrysmod folder (which you'll have to do by hand, because there will be leftover files), then reinstall.

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