I did this but now I got a different error message ugh, text below is a new error message
Failed to download file. 1.12.2.jar
Name: 1.12.2.jar
URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.12.2/1.12.2.jar
Error details: Request error -101: ERR_CONNECTION_RESET
Filename on disk: fb66-7dbc-9ebb-d374
Path: C:\Users\avabr\AppData\Local\Temp\fb66-7dbc-9ebb-d374
Exists: file
my newest error code after attempting to launch forge 1.12 again, I didn't make any changes from the last attempt...
Unable to save download. cave7.ogg
Name: cave7.ogg
URL: https://resources.download.minecraft.net/c8/c8dd60f7e7087da52a431c1dbc0f397317b374fb
Error details: Attempting to move successful download to C:/Users\avabr\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\assets\objects\c8/c8dd60f7e7087da52a431c1dbc0f397317b374fb
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
Filename on disk: d98e-cdcd-8ebf-97ad
Path: C:\Users\avabr\AppData\Local\Temp\d98e-cdcd-8ebf-97ad
Exists: file