diff --git a/onionshare_gui/tab/mode/history.py b/onionshare_gui/tab/mode/history.py
index 0797320e..1497813d 100644
--- a/onionshare_gui/tab/mode/history.py
+++ b/onionshare_gui/tab/mode/history.py
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ class ShareHistoryItem(HistoryItem):
         self.progress_bar.setAttribute(QtCore.Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose)
         self.progress_bar.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignHCenter)
         self.progress_bar.setMinimum(0)
-        self.progress_bar.setMaximum(total_bytes)
+        self.progress_bar.setMaximum(total_bytes / 1024)
         self.progress_bar.setValue(0)
         self.progress_bar.setStyleSheet(
             self.common.gui.css["downloads_uploads_progress_bar"]
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ class ShareHistoryItem(HistoryItem):
     def update(self, downloaded_bytes):
         self.downloaded_bytes = downloaded_bytes
 
-        self.progress_bar.setValue(downloaded_bytes)
-        if downloaded_bytes == self.progress_bar.total_bytes:
+        self.progress_bar.setValue(downloaded_bytes / 1024)
+        if (downloaded_bytes / 1024) == (self.progress_bar.total_bytes / 1024):
             pb_fmt = strings._("gui_all_modes_progress_complete").format(
                 self.common.format_seconds(time.time() - self.started)
             )
@@ -322,8 +322,8 @@ class ReceiveHistoryItem(HistoryItem):
                 total_uploaded_bytes += data["progress"][filename]["uploaded_bytes"]
 
             # Update the progress bar
-            self.progress_bar.setMaximum(self.content_length)
-            self.progress_bar.setValue(total_uploaded_bytes)
+            self.progress_bar.setMaximum(self.content_length / 1024)
+            self.progress_bar.setValue(total_uploaded_bytes / 1024)
 
             elapsed = datetime.now() - self.started
             if elapsed.seconds < 10:
@@ -339,6 +339,8 @@ class ReceiveHistoryItem(HistoryItem):
                     estimated_time_remaining,
                 )
 
+            self.progress_bar.setFormat(pb_fmt)
+
             # Using list(progress) to avoid "RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration"
             for filename in list(data["progress"]):
                 # Add a new file if needed
@@ -461,7 +463,7 @@ class IndividualFileHistoryItem(HistoryItem):
         self.downloaded_bytes = downloaded_bytes
 
         self.progress_bar.setValue(downloaded_bytes)
-        if downloaded_bytes == self.progress_bar.total_bytes:
+        if (downloaded_bytes / 1024 ) == (self.progress_bar.total_bytes / 1024):
             self.status_code_label.setText("200")
             self.status_code_label.setStyleSheet(
                 self.common.gui.css["history_individual_file_status_code_label_2xx"]