Downloads are not showing up in Download folder...

Sorry- not trying to be obtuse. My browser prefs do state that they should go into my Download folder. But they aren't. I use web based mail- being Yahoo Mail. I just tried again to download an attachment. It does not show up in the Downloads folder to the right of the dock. But when I go into the download window (showing that the download is complete), it allows me to click a magnifying glass that says "Show in Finder". THat opens a Download window that is housed under my User name and in there I can find the file. I just don't understand why they stopped going into the downloads folder down in the dock area, since that is supposedly the purpose of having that folder there.

Does this make sense? Thanks.

Thanks. When I click Download, it automatically starts the download. When I bought the computer, they told me downloads would automatically all show up in that folder (which they did initially). I'm not sure if I hit something to change that. But even when I see them in the Finder window, they are greyed out such that I can't even open them?

HI- actually both. And for the email attachment part- it is downloading not saving. I can't seem to do either....

OH- and to answer your earlier question, I don't use Mail.

Thanks!

Thank you - it worked! I don't know why the preference got switched when I know I didn't select a different folder, but it is now going there correctly.

Thanks again.