The plugin id used by the File Download Link formatter is the same id used by the file entity module's "Download Link" formatter. This causes some installations using both this module, and File Entity to end up using File Entity's formatter. Note that File Entity has been deprecated since it became the Media module in core. So this is unlikely to be an issue in sites created starting with Media, but any older sites, still in the process of migrating to Media are likely to encounter this problem.
The patch in this issue sets the plugin id to the File Download Link formatter to something else to avoid this conflict. Any sites using both this module, and File Entity will need to use this patch until they fully migrate from File Entity and uninstall that module.
"Using file entity download link formatter when trying to use this formatter"
In my site, I have a Paragraph type with a Media reference field. I'm trying to use the formatter supplied by this module, but when I select "File Download Link", enter custom link text (e.g. Download Blah), It still uses the default file entity Download Link fomatter, with the default settings, which renders as "Download [filename] (XXX.XX KB)".
Is there a step to this I am missing?
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