Changing Airdrop Default Save Location

While there is no direct ways to do this, there is however a workaround that allows you to change the default location:

How to change the default AirDrop destination folder on Mac

The great thing about this trick is that it can differentiate files that were Airdroppped from files that are downloaded to your Downloads folder for example. It makes it look seamless.

Here is a solution http://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/03/03/change-airdrop-destination-folder-mac/

It requires a bit of tinkering but I’ve been using this method on my MacBook Pro and iMac for a while now. It works flawlessly.

This would be amazing! My airdrop keeps telling me it's received 37 videos and only 1 shows up. I've done so much trouble shooting and still can't find the files! It'd be nice if it went to the airdrop page!

Make a folder action attached to your Downloads folder that moves things to wherever you want them to be. I made one that moves files to my Desktop.

Hi Jeffrey,

Would you mind explaining how to do that?

Thnaks in advance.

Dickie

Hi Jeffrey,

your solution is nice for people who don't care about spoiling their system disk, which I agree must be numerous today.

But would you possibly have another suggestion to avoid documents sent via Airdrop to end up at all on the System disk ? I mean, just as one can do it for the Safari or Mail downloads, where you can define a default folder located on a different hard disk ? I'm with a MacPro, and System disk is intended only for... system, not files, so to avoid fragmentations issues from multiple erase actions of unnecessary files.

Is it possible that Apple writes "default folder" and forgot that "default" means one can opt for an alternative solution ??? Has Apple gone that un-professional ? Please tell me I've just missed a line somewhere... and that I don't have to rely once more on a third party app...

Cheers !

Config

Yosemite OSX 10.10.1

Mac Pro (Late 2013)

surely there must be an easier way????? when you click on Airdrop in the sidebar, a page opens up that look like it should have all the things you have airdropped. why do not the files go there?

I am also confounded by this!