I have Safari 14.0.3 on a MacBook Pro Mid 2015 Catalina 10.15.7
Every time I try to change to change the File download location to the "Downloads" folder, it selects the "Desktop" folder. I can switch to other folders, but not the sions "Downloads" folder. It has happened in previous versions of Safari and OS.
Thank you
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15
Mojave location - User/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
Might be a corrupt .plist.
Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.
Quit the application.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart the computer, open the application, and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
This may require a reset of some other Preferences.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
Mojave location - User/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
Might be a corrupt .plist.
Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.
Quit the application.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart the computer, open the application, and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
This may require a reset of some other Preferences.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
Yes, this page, only when I select the "Downloads" folder for the "File download location", it instantly changes to "desktop"
wrote this when I only saw your picture.
I will try
Thanks!
no luck :(
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