{"id":11170,"date":"2016-05-30T11:37:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T15:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=11170"},"modified":"2016-05-30T11:37:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T15:37:57","slug":"change-your-downloads-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/change-your-downloads-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Your Downloads Folder"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to Change Your Downloads Folder
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This is for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10.
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\n<\/strong>By default, when you download a file in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge or most any other browser, your files will be downloaded to your default Downloads folder. On Windows 7, Windows 8x and Windows 10, your default Downloads folder location is:<\/p>\n

C:\\Users\\Your Windows User Name\\Downloads<\/p>\n

But what if you have a secondary hard drive or an external hard drive and you want to download to one of them? What if you\u2019re the kind of person who likes things simple. You want your download folder where you can find it really easily \u2013 where it\u2019s almost always in site; \u00a0you want to create a downloads folder on your desktop.<\/p>\n

If you use Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer, it\u2019s easy to change the default download folder. Microsoft Edge requires you change the properties of the download folder itself or use a registry hack, so we\u2019re not going to cover Edge in this article.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how to change the default download folder in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer:<\/p>\n

Chrome<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chrome is probably the easiest browser as far as changing your download location.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Click the Settings button at the top right of the browser (it looks like 3 horizontal lines) and then click \u201cSettings\u201d in the menu. See below:<\/p>\n

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Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the Settings menu and click \u201cShow advanced settings\u2026\u201d
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\n<\/strong>Now scroll down the \u201cadvanced settings\u201d dialog to the \u201cDownloads\u201d folder and click Change. Scroll to the new download folder you want to use, or scroll to the location where you want to download to and click \u201cMake new folder\u201d and give it a name. Chrome will change your default download location to whatever drive and folder you select. You can see in the example below that I\u2019ve chosen a folder on my F:\\ drive (External) called \u201cDownloads\u201d. From now on, when I download a file using Chrome, it will download toF:\\Downloads<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Firefox<\/p>\n

<\/strong>First make sure you have \u201cMenu\u201d selected on Firefox. If you don\u2019t see a menu bar at the top (File Edit View etc.) at top of Firefox, right click anywhere at the very top of Firefox (not on an icon) and check \u201cMenu bar\u201d. On the Firefox menu bar click Tools\u2013>Options\u2014>General tab.<\/p>\n

In the General tab, you\u2019ll see Downloads. With \u201cSave files to\u201d selected, click the \u201cBrowse\u201d button:<\/p>\n

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Look at the image below. When I clicked \u201cBrowse\u201d above, I browsed to my desktop and clicked \u201cMake a new folder\u201d and created a folder called \u201cDownloads On My Desktop\u201d. From now on when I download a file in Firefox it will be saved on my Desktop in the folder called \u201cDownloads On My Desktop\u201d. You can, of course, use this folder for Chrome and Internet Explorer downloads as well.
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Internet Explorer<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Click on the Gear icon (circled in yellow below) and then click \u201cView downloads\u201d or just click Ctrl + J.<\/p>\n

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When the \u201cView Downloads\u201d dialog opens, click on \u201cOptions\u201d at the bottom:<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ll see the Download Options dialog appear. Click on Browse and browse to the drive and folder to which you want Internet Explorer to save your downloads.<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>Below: I chose my F:\\ drive (External) and a folder that I created called \u201cI.E. Downloads\u201d \u2013 and that\u2019s where Internet Explorer will save my downloaded files. This does not affect Firefox\u2019s or Chrome\u2019s default download folders.
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<\/strong>And that\u2019s it. Now you can take control of your download location whether you use Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer \u2013 all three.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, EB? What about Microsoft Edge? What about it? Oh.\u00a0 Edge users…sorry. You have to change the properties of the download folder (which affects other programs) or use a registry hack which we will get into another time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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How to Change Your Downloads Folder This is for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10. By default, when you download a file in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge or most any other browser, your files will be downloaded to your default Downloads folder. On Windows 7, Windows 8x and Windows 10, your default Downloads folder location\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11171,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170\/revisions\/11171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}