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Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files - Discussion
Hello everyone,
Thanks so much for all the feedback provided regarding Open/SaveAs. We are now introducing an option for users using Edge version 87.0.629.0 and above to choose, for each download, whether they want to Open, Save As, Save, or Cancel a download. To enable this option, navigate to edge://settings/downloads and enable, "Ask me what to do with each download." Once you download a file after enabling that setting, you will have the option to Open, Save As, Save, or Cancel it. If you choose to open it directly, it will be downloaded to a temporary folder.
Additionally, we have exposed an option to directly delete downloaded files from your computer, in the browser so that you can easily clean up after downloading your files without leaving the browser.
To learn more about these features, please check out our post.
Hi Elliot Kirk .
It would be great to have a management policy where I can define that some file types will be save in temp dir or in an specified directory without asking the user.
Usecase:
In generally our useres schould be asked where to save the download. But there are some special files (.rdp for RDP sessions; .ica for Citrix Sessions, ...) on which it is not necessary to ask the user where to save. These temporary files can be saved automatically in the temp directory. And when the AutoOpenFileTypes Policy is configured too, the user has an great user experience for example in Citrix.
htcfreek Elliot Kirk I totally agree with this.
In enterprise usecases there are often specific file types that the IT department wishes to set to automatically open and not save in Downloads.
It could be rdp, and ica like mentioned, but also file types like pdf if they need to be opened in the Desktop version of Adobe Reader.