Hi
I confirm that as mj_jdl discovered then a temporary fix is commenting out lines 394 to 397 of JROOT/components/com_jdownloads/src/Helper/CategoriesHelper.php:397 solves the multilang associatiom problem.
// if ($this->_options['currentlang'] !== 0) {
// $subQueryCat->where(
// $db->quoteName('cat.language')
// . ' IN (' . implode(',', $this->_options['currentlang']));
// }
Colin