{"id":2361,"date":"2014-11-01T01:35:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T07:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.filepuma.com\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2014-11-01T01:35:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T07:05:54","slug":"how-to-change-the-downloads-folder-in-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/how-to-change-the-downloads-folder-in-google-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change the downloads folder in Google Chrome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\u201cDid you save the file on your computer?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\u201cOf course I did but only God knows where he put the file!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">It&#8217;s a common problem with people who were born before the \u201cinternet age\u201d and that is because the browser uses the default \u201cDownloads\u201d folder of your system to store the downloaded files. You can change all that in Google Chrome in just a few steps.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> In Google Chrome browser, click on the control button (the three small parallel lines on the right of the address bar).<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/kqEVt814545485f13e8b2265515304.png\" alt=\"Google Chrome 1\" width=\"1440\" height=\"860\" \/><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Select the \u201cSettings\u201d option from the drop down menu.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PbqXS310545485f404c6a806950572.png\" alt=\"Google Chrome 2\" width=\"1441\" height=\"861\" \/><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> Click on \u201cShow advanced settings\u201d option on the bottom of the screen.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/JpacT723545485f87466b886937580.png\" alt=\"Google Chrome 4\" width=\"1441\" height=\"861\" \/><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Step 4:<\/strong> Scroll down until you find the \u201cDownloads\u201d section, then click on the \u201cChange\u201d button to set a new location for your downloaded files. You can also check the box below if you want to be asked about the destination every time you download something. I use the latter because I have specific targets for the different files I download and I don&#8217;t want to walk the extra mile to cut and paste the file to its desired location after.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/watXP467545485fd10a03680178454.png\" alt=\"Google Chrome 5\" width=\"1441\" height=\"861\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDid you save the file on your computer?\u201d \u201cOf course I did but only God knows where he put the file!\u201d It&#8217;s a common problem with people who were born before the \u201cinternet age\u201d and that is because the browser uses the default \u201cDownloads\u201d folder of your system to store the downloaded files. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}