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Hello everyone and thanks for your significant interest in our feedback item of “Provide run / open / save as options when downloading files”. This has been a very interesting problem to think throug...
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.
I use a online call logging tool which requires me to check attached logs in the past I would just click on the logs it would open in a new TAB and I could check the contents and close the TAB now it downloads the file and at the end of the day I have nearly 100 files that I need to delete. Are there any plans to bring this ability back? Elliot Kirk
Hi Taz902, you are welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insider Community Hub,
The feature of asking open, save and save a file before downloading it is now available to the Canary Channel under Controlled Feature Rollout and may come to the Stable Channel in 2-3 months if everything goes well.
You can check this upcoming feature in this conversation.
TheShaunSaw, thank you! This is great news. I'm very excited it's getting closer to release. I don't use Canary, but I'll test it when it reaches the Dev channel. Hopefully that will be by the end of September.
NO no no ... the image is NOT OFFICIAL. The red box is something that I have added as an example of what can be done that is not currently implemented.
I feel like it leads to confusion !!
In Canary and Dev, when you download something, if you have activated the option "Ask me what to do with each download" it will ask you if you want to "Open" or "Save as".
So far correct and it is a good solution.
What I see is not right, is that every time you download something IN THE SAME SESSION you will always choose "Downloads" as the default destination (or the path that you have chosen in the configuration). At first this behavior is correct, but if IN THE SAME SESSION you are going to download several files that you want to save in the same directory and which is NOT the default, with each file it will force you to navigate to the path where you want to save it . Until now edge did not have this behavior when you downloaded several files in a row since it always used the last selected path, WITHIN THE SAME SESSION.
Anyway, I hope I have explained it better now.
Greetings and thank you.
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(Spanish)NO no no ... la imagen no es OFICIAL. El recuadro en rojo es algo que he añadido yo como un ejemplo de lo que se puede hacer y que actualmente no esta implementado.
Siento que lleve a confusión!!
En Canary y en Dev, cuando descargas algo, si tienes activada la opción "Preguntarme que hacer con cada descarga" te preguntara si deseas "Abrir" o "Guardar como".
Hasta aquí correcto y es una buena solución.
Lo que veo que no esta bien, es que cada vez que descargas algo EN LA MISMA SESION siempre te va elegir como destino predeterminado "Downloads" (o la ruta que tu hayas elegido en la configuración). En un primer momento este comportamiento es correcto, pero si EN LA MISMA SESION vas a descargar varios archivos que quieres guardar en el mismo directorio y que NO es el predeterminado, con cada archivo te obligara a navegar hasta la ruta en la que lo quieres guardar. Hasta ahora Edge no tenia este comportamiento cuando descargabas varios archivos seguidos ya que siempre utilizaba la ultima ruta seleccionada, DENTRO DE LA MISMA SESION.
En fin, espero haberlo explicado mejor ahora.
Un saludo y gracias.
ppnacho I'm on can 87.0.636.0 and it now remembers the session, thank god as it was starting to annoy me.
TheShaunSaw Hello. I have a Canary channel but don't have this feature. I don't think it's yet available to everyone.
Hello:
I have just verified that in the canary version and in the dev version the option "Open" and "Save as" appears each time a download link is clicked.
It is an important advance for all those who just want to "Open" the download link without having to download it first.
However, the option "Save as" does not "memorize" the last directory used, so if you have to download several files and save them in the same directory, for each download you have to start browsing to the final directory. This is a major loss of functionality.
The option to memorize the last download should be given. Something like "Save the file in the same directory used in the last download" (Yes / No) as one more option in the configuration. Something similar to the example in the image:
Thank you very much!!
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Hola:
Acabo de comprobar que en la version canary y en la version dev aparece la opcion "Abrir" y "Guardar como" cada vez que se pulsa sobre un enlace de descarga.
Es un adelanto importante para todos aquellos que solo quieren "Abrir" el enlace de descarga sin necesidad de descargarlo previamente.
Sin embargo, la opcion "Guardar como" no "memoriza" el ultimo directorio utilizado por lo que si tienes que descargar varios ficheros y guardarlos en un mismo directorio, para cada descarga se tiene que iniciar la navegacion hasta el directorio final. Esto es una perdida importante de funcionalidad.
Se deberia dar la opcion de memorizar la ultima descarga. Algo asi como "Guardar el archivo en el mismo directorio utilizado en la ultima descarga" (Si/No) como una opcion mas en la configuracion. Algo similar al ejemplo de la imagen:
Muchas gracias!!
