All apps that save files to the default Downloads folder will start to save files to the new location. In order to get those apps to save to the new downloads folder, you have to select it again from the Save As window. If the app has dedicated settings for selecting a download location, use that to select the default location.
You can undo the change easily enough. Open File Explorer and right-click Downloads in the navigation bar. Select Properties from the context menu and go to the Location tab. Click it and Windows will return the downloads folder to the default location. It will again ask if you want to move files or not. The downloads folder for any and all users on Windows resides in the C drive.
It can get to a point where your Windows drive starts to run short on space. The obvious solution is to clean your Downloads folder regularly. Where did Mega. Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 3 months ago. Active 2 years, 8 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Community Bot 1. The first one worked! Thank you! I added the extension and sure enough the entire file is there. Not sure why it needs to copy it?
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. The option "do this automatically for files like this from now on" was useful for the rare file type that I would want to open automatically usually because it's a very small music file or something. Now every time I download virtually any file type, the prompt comes up with 'open the file' preselected, and "do this automatically for files like this from now on" greyed out. As a result, on more than one occasion, I have mistakenly clicked ok and opened huge files automatically after downloading which has resulted in them popping open even hours later and playing automatically once the download finished.
I'd like to be able to select "save it to my computer" and have it do this automatically, but that option is greyed out. I'm still prompted for each and every file I download, still preselected to open the file, with the "do this automatically for files like this from now on" still greyed out.
I'd like to change it to the way I had before, or at the very least automatically set all downloads to save into my downloads folder. Could you try copying your old mimeTypes.
You can open your new profile folder quickly using:. Regarding the prefs. I think mine suggests whatever I did last for the same type of content, but I haven't paid close attention.
I'm out of time to address the problem with "do this automatically" but there is one suggestion for why it could be grayed out in this article: Change what Firefox does when you click on or download a file. Is it possible you had a download-related extension before? To compare settings and extensions, please retain the Old Firefox Data folder on your desktop. Aside from checking the extensions in there, it would be interesting to run a text file comparison on your currently active prefs.
This is where I set the download folder location.
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