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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.
ppnacho
Sep 04, 2020Iron Contributor
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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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.
DocDJ
Sep 06, 2020Copper Contributor
Excellent explanation. Thanks. Of course, if someone expects to be downloading several files in the same session, he could always turn off the “ask me” option. But if ask me is not the default, he has to remember to turn it back on again for the next session.