Download Folder

[HCStrike]

I was trying to change my downloads folder from my windows install drive to my storage drive when I accidentally assigned the whole drive to the downloads folder not the individual folder I chose. Is there any way in which I can undo this and make a specific folder the downloads location?

 

Thanks

Harry

[Mira Yurizaki]

What are we talking about here? From a internet browser? A system folder? If it's a browser, it's in the settings. If it's the "Downloads" folder in your user directory, right click on the folder, then go to the "Location" tab and change it there.

[HCStrike]

Its my actual downloads folder on my PC. It has moved to my Hard drive and not a sub folder of my hard drive

 

[WoodenMarker]

Go to your library or My Computer and right click the Downloads folder to go to properties.

In the location tab, you can assign which folder is the downloads folder.

[HCStrike]

1 minute ago, WoodenMarker said:

Go to your library or My Computer and right click the Downloads folder to go to properties.

In the location tab, you can assign which folder is the downloads folder.

I cant find the download folder

[WoodenMarker]

1 minute ago, HCStrike said:

I cant find the download folder

What do you see when you go to Computer or This PC?

[HCStrike]

1 minute ago, WoodenMarker said:

What do you see when you go to Computer or This PC?

Hard Disk Drives and my C and D drives

 

[WoodenMarker]

Just now, HCStrike said:

Hard Disk Drives and my C and D drives

Can you post a screenshot of what you see?

[HCStrike]

http://prnt.sc/cireb8

[Enderman]

9 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

What are we talking about here? From a internet browser? A system folder? If it's a browser, it's in the settings. If it's the "Downloads" folder in your user directory, right click on the folder, then go to the "Location" tab and change it there.

That is not how you should change folder location.

 

This is the correct way:

 

EDIT- i notice the downloads folder isnt included here, my bad

[HCStrike]

2 minutes ago, WoodenMarker said:

Can you post a screenshot of what you see?

My C drive: http://prntscr.com/cireqi

My D drive: http://prntscr.com/cireyi

[HCStrike]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

That is not how you should change folder location.

 

This is the correct way:

I am on windows 7...

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, HCStrike said:

I am on windows 7...

Try going to C -> users -> your name  and the downloads library should be there

[HCStrike]

Just now, Enderman said:

Try going to C -> users -> your name  and the downloads library should be there

http://prntscr.com/cirg5i It isnt the proper Downloads library though

[Enderman]

Just now, HCStrike said:

http://prntscr.com/cirg5i It isnt the proper Downloads library though

Yeah now right click it look for a location tab:

You should be able to change that?

[HCStrike]

Just now, Enderman said:

Yeah now right click it look for a location tab:

You should be able to change that?

Nothing there http://prntscr.com/cirhmd

[WoodenMarker]

8 minutes ago, HCStrike said:

My C drive: http://prntscr.com/cireqi

My D drive: http://prntscr.com/cireyi

That's the inside of your C and D drive.

Can you find your current downloads folder in the start menu search bar?

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Yeah now right click it look for a location tab:

You should be able to change that?

If the library location has been changed, the old folder won't be a library any more. 

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, HCStrike said:

Nothing there http://prntscr.com/cirhmd

Not even under customize?

 

You know you can also just make another folder on your other drive called whatever you want and then in your browser change change the default save location?

[WoodenMarker]

Just now, Enderman said:

Not even under customize?

You know you can also just make another folder on your other drive called whatever you want and then in your browser change change the default save location?

It's because the folder is no longer a library folder.

That will only fix it for the one browser though.

[HCStrike]

1 minute ago, WoodenMarker said:

It's because the folder is no longer a library folder.

That will only fix it for the one browser though.

How do I make it a Library folder?

[WoodenMarker]

2 minutes ago, HCStrike said:

How do I make it a Library folder?

Your Downloads folder is the library folder. 

Can you find your current downloads location?

[Mira Yurizaki]

2 minutes ago, HCStrike said:

How do I make it a Library folder?

You have to make a Downloads Library (open the Libraries folder, right click somewhere empty, select "New", then select "Library"), then include it there.

 

There is another fix to this but it requires making a new user account, moving the contents of your old one there and starting over. That is if right clicking on C:\ and bringing up its properties doesn't show this tab we're talking about.

[HCStrike]

2 minutes ago, WoodenMarker said:

Your Downloads folder is the library folder. 

Can you find your current downloads location?

I think its n my C:\Users\Harry Folder

[WoodenMarker]

1 minute ago, HCStrike said:

I think its n my C:\Users\Harry Folder

That is your Downloads library. Right click the folder and go to Properties. You can change the Downloads location there.

[HCStrike]

1 minute ago, WoodenMarker said:

That is your Downloads library. Right click the folder and go to Properties. You can change the Downloads location there.

I cant though. It is just a folder not a proper library