How to set safari to ask for download folder

I agree with most of the rest of the posters here, yes, you *can* find work rounds, but it's not as easy as downloading particular files to a place that's logical for *me*; I like nested folders. I like to download files to the relevant folder. If I want it there & then, there's the list of recent downloads to get it from. If I'm just downloading it in advance, then it's already in the logical location when I want to do something with it.

It's purely a case of giving users a choice of what suits their work style best.

I decided to give Safari another chance after watching the Yosemite launch video say how the performance had been improved.

But I've hit this problem again which annoys me so much that I felt motivated to post here.

1. I want to be able to set the download location for each file - much easier than having to open the Downloads folder and move files to their desired location.
2. Some sites give files a funny name so I want to be able to override the file name prior to download.

Especially if it's a large download that is going to take a long time.

With other browsers I can set the filename and destination and let it get on with it.

With Safari I have to remember to keep checking whether the download has finished and then go back and rename/move the file.

Apple recently accepted user feedback and reversed the decision about the PCALC IOS 8 widget.

Can we hope that they will now give users the "prompt for download location"?

By no means perfect, I've just started using this workaround using the Apple Automator facility as shown on the superuser.com website:

http://superuser.com/questions/201298/to-prompt-a-folder-location-when-safari-do wnloads-a-file

that only works for plainly formatted html download links. for any download link that uses a script where the target file ins't in the code, which is used in webmail clients or services like yousendit, for example, this doesn't work. it's ok even, if you are a fanboy, to acknowledge that this missing functionality is still a stupid shortcoming on apple's part.

January 18th 2011 is when this issue was first raised. Now it is (almost) the 4th anniversary of that issue being initially questioned in this chain, yet still the problem persists, apparently totally ignored by that world beating, customer centric, cutting edge, faceless (the current leaders are unaccessible, so I am justified with the 'faceless' descriptor) monolith that Apple has become.

It is not whinging, as some have suggested, it is a genuine issue. None of the suggested 'fixes' work, you cannot use 'save as' with many files for reasons described in earlier responses and there is no point in simply creating a separate desktop destination, you are only moving the frustration to a different place.

What I want to know is do Apple actually bother to take notice of their users' (revenue providers) concerns? A strong marketing driven company should be very focussed on their 'customer usage and attitudes'. This is one attitude they have certainly not picked up on.

Having migrated to Mac 6 months ago, and having become used to what PC users would consider to be 'counter intuitive Apple quirks', sadly this issue has driven me back to my trusty old PC where I can dictate where I save the many docs I need to download for my business by filing them properly first time and therefore locating them immediately when needed.

Apple - where are you? Even if you have no intention of addressing this, at least have the courtesy to inform your frustrated users!

Agreed. It's ridiculous. And the only reason I continue using Chrome (which has its own issues of late).

I'm not entirely sure why this functionality was removed, but "Save As"-options have been removed from other Apple programs as well during this time. I do not think that this is due to stupidity or ignoring of user feedback. There must be a deliberate reason why this is being done, and I believe the reason must be somewhat evil.

Apple (and to a lesser extent Microsoft) wants to make us stop thinking in terms of files and folders. Instead, they want us to think of files as something being accessed by a particular program, which of course is provided by them. This allows them to indirectly own our files, and thus ensure that we remain loyal customers. As I said, I haven't figured out the connection, but I'm 100% certain that the removal of "Save As" is a deliberate step in this strategy. The choice between Apple and Microsoft is between Evil and Stupid. For now I'm trying my luck on Evil, hoping to be able to find shortcuts around the worst insults.

I've submitted my request. It couldn't hurt if everyone here does the same.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html

I'm afraid that does not work. Right clicking (control-click since I have a Macbook) does not give the option to choose a preferred download folder. So tell how do you manage to do it. I have Mavericks and a Macbook Pro. Right clicking does NOT work. The option is not there.

Agreed, and done.

Done as well. But I'm afraid this might just be an Apple policy rather than an oversight. So what now?

It is disappointing to see after 4 years, no one at Apple cares enough even to comment. I have invested more than $10,000 in iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air then Pro and iMac - and so prefer safari because it is common across all those and Firefox and Chrome have had their share of issues for me. But really, the arrogance of Billionaire-led companies to totally ignore what could be such a simple fix is enough to make me give Chrome another chance and reconsider whether it was worth all he spend. Could someone at Apple at least have the decency to post a position on this? The fact is they can want me to move away fro a files view of the world - NGH (not gonna happen) and it is annoying that every single download requires extra steps. Intuitive user interface? Not when an arrogant product manager or programmer decides otherwise. Sheesh. Rant over, for now.

Honestly, this is making me nuts.. No f*cking Save As function?! Are we in middle ages?!?!

This is the usual Apple "WE KNOW BETTER THAN YOU WHAT YOU REALLY ONLY NEED" crap that has been going on for years.

Just as with Microsoft, which has had a pretty junky OS to run even worse applications, there is a certain amount of hubris that comes with being essentially a monopoly, or in this case a duopoly.

I find these things irritating and in addition, I have the Wife who spares no language insult on me, because of Apple's various choices (like no scroll bars, well unless you enable scroll bars, and even then no 'line by line' arrow...).

This attitude is not only to be found in Apps and the UX area, but also in the internals driver area... using C++ to implement the IOKit, rather than continuing the Objective-C DevKit of NeXT, put drivers on a longer path than necessary, but of course this was because of the superior knowledge of the Apple Mavins.

This attitude is not limited to Apple, but many companies in Silicon Valley.

Thanks straydogstudio. This, although a bit annoying, is the best answer to this issue. IMHO I think that the pref's panel should have the option to say "ask me" like Chrome, etc., but the Save Download File As... is a workable solution until the other is developed and written into the next Safari update... (hint hint)