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Elliot Kirk
Former Employee
Oct 29, 2019
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Provide 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...
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    i-am-kent
    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.

     

     

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muellech
Iron Contributor
Nov 05, 2019
Just implement the current Edge behaviour. The direct download to the default location is a disaster if you are doing a lot of downloads, while the popup method allows me to organise the downloads before the download folder becomes a total mess.

One example: I am frequently downloading Visual C++ runtimes, which always have the same file name regardless of their version. With the crappy Chrome download model, I cannot do the downloads in parallel, because they all target the Downloads folder and get renamed to vcredist (1), vcredist (2), etc. which is totally useless.

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