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Elliot Kirk
Microsoft
Oct 29, 2019Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files - Discussion
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...
- Sep 09, 2020
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.
ComputerCat
Oct 30, 2019Copper Contributor
My reasons for this request are covered by option 1 but are mainly about saving time.
I work in IT, and to remote into a staff member’s Citrix session I click on a button labelled Shadow and get asked what I want to do with a file titled Invite.msrincident. This file sends a request to my staff asking if they give permission for me to see their screen. I can save the file and then open it and it will work, but it takes longer because I have to click on the three dots and then move the mouse again to click on Open.
My second reason is that if a staff member rings the IT number and no one picks up, they can leave a voice message. This gets saved as a file to a ticket. Waiting for the file to download before I can open it and then having to get rid of it afterwards is annoying.
I work in IT, and to remote into a staff member’s Citrix session I click on a button labelled Shadow and get asked what I want to do with a file titled Invite.msrincident. This file sends a request to my staff asking if they give permission for me to see their screen. I can save the file and then open it and it will work, but it takes longer because I have to click on the three dots and then move the mouse again to click on Open.
My second reason is that if a staff member rings the IT number and no one picks up, they can leave a voice message. This gets saved as a file to a ticket. Waiting for the file to download before I can open it and then having to get rid of it afterwards is annoying.
- DinosaurTimOct 30, 2019Brass Contributor
ComputerCatThe current Chromium Edge allows you to click a file to open it before it is downloaded. This is faster than the old Edge/IE because the browser is not waiting on the user to choose Run/Open/Save. The old Open/Save both must first download the file before it can be opened.