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Greetings,
I started using Vivaldi as my default browser a few weeks ago and I love it. I was having lags and frequent crashes with Opera, but that's all cleared up now. But I have one issue with Vivaldi:
It automatically downloads all files to the same location, which it calls the file manager. I think it's the first destination I ever saved anything to after installing Vivaldi, but why would that even matter? I mean I saved one file there once, but not every download is the same kind of file, downloaded for the same purpose. And I'd like for it to ask me where I want to save files to, so how do I set it to do that? I even unclicked the box to Always Save Files To Default Download Location, which seems like it should have set it to not do that because now there shouldn't be a default destination, but it's still doing it. So can someone please tell me what setting will fix this for me? Thanks.
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@cstallone You should not remove the default location, not recommended. I think it will just fall back to using the default location anyway (in Windows your Downloads folder).
If you uncheck "Save files to default location without asking" and choose "Save as..." in the popup, you can select the location of the download.
Video how it should work: https://ttm.sh/ixk.mp4
Note that the file dialog also remembers the last download location, which might be a bug but I think it's more a Windows-thing.
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@cstallone
Hi, I use exactly this setting to download to the same location but if I uncheck it the dialog window appears:
May be an extension influence this, no idea but the setting is the right one.
Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin: thank you for the quick response. Only thing is I already have that box unchecked. Now if I'm understanding you correctly, what you're telling me to do is leave it checked, and then uncheck it when the dialog box pops up. Is that about right? Oh and thanks again.
CS
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@cstallone
Hm no, I had this checked because I don´t want to choose the location.
For a test I uncheck the setting start a download and this window appear and I guess this is what you want.Cheers, mib
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You can uncheck this in the settings:
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@leo32345: okay well I went into settings and found that I had already unchecked the box to tell it to automatically use the default location, but that it had a default in place. So what I did was I left the box unchecked and removed the default location. I have nothing to download now, so I'll wai until I do to test it, but it seems to me as it should ask me every time now that it doesn't even have a default to always go to. Does that sound about right to you?
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@cstallone said in Download Locations:
it seems to me as it should ask me every time now
I believe it will still save to the default location unless you change it, but it will ask you every time.
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@cstallone You should not remove the default location, not recommended. I think it will just fall back to using the default location anyway (in Windows your Downloads folder).
If you uncheck "Save files to default location without asking" and choose "Save as..." in the popup, you can select the location of the download.
Video how it should work: https://ttm.sh/ixk.mp4
Note that the file dialog also remembers the last download location, which might be a bug but I think it's more a Windows-thing.
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@pathduck: okay I did that and then I tested it by redownloading a file I'd downloaded earlier. And I achieved partial success. It asked me where to place the file, rather than defaulting to the last location I'd chosen. But it also refused to let me download to the desktop.
Now this isn't that big a deal, as I don't think I'll ever need to place a file there, but there might come a time when I'll want to put an install file there, for example, only because it doesn't have its own directory until after it completes the installation. Do you know why the browser would tell me I don't have permission to download a file to the desktop?
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@cstallone said in Download Locations:
Do you know why the browser would tell me I don't have permission to download a file to the desktop?
I have no idea, I can download to Desktop just fine (but never do).
It's your OS telling you there's no permission, not the browser.
It's not a browser setting that controls this, it's a OS permissions issue on your system you'll need to investigate. -
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