Downloading documents from Safari to my computer

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Downloading documents from Safari to my computer

Since upgrading to Catalina 10.15.7 I have had trouble finding documents downloaded from Safari to my computer, to documents. I never had problems with this with the last 2 OS, the last was High Sierra. I could find everything in finder. I attempted to download a document from Safari as is 2x and convert it to PDF 2x. It does not show in finder, the second time I download a pop up states this document exist do I want to replace it? If this is on my computer, how do I find it? I cannot do business on this computer.

Posted on Dec 2, 2021 10:40 AM

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MartinR

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Dec 2, 2021 11:05 AM in response to 8149

Check Safari > Preferences > General > File Dowload Location to see where Safari is saving what you download.

You can change this setting to almost any folder you prefer as your download location.

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8149 Author

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Dec 2, 2021 3:16 PM in response to MartinR

Thanks for replying, they are going to downloads, the only other option I have is ask for each download

and other. There is another problem with finder I was having before upgrading OS. When Choosing a file

to upload to a website, like my resume, most files in finder were not available for upload, they were in grey

print, the ones available for upload were in black. I found a way around this problem. Something else is going on.

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Dec 13, 2021 11:10 AM in response to 8149

To elaborate on this ongoing problem, I cannot find downloads from safari. On Chrome this is what I have to do:

Download a PDF, JPG, HTML or other file, it does not show in finder. I need to click on the download in the bottom of page

then go to Chrome://downloads click show in finder. The finder that appears has all the downloads I just downloaded in

Chrome, if I close this finder and open the finder in the bottom left bar on computer the downloads are not there!!! I need to

go back to Chrome://downloads, click show in finder, when that finder appears I have to open EACH download in that finder for the downloads to appear in the finder I open from the bottom left of my computer. I have 2 finders with different files??

Is there a downloads folder on my computer, or is Chrome://downloads my downloads folder?

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Downloading documents from Safari to my computer

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