remember last download location per website

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

You can enable the setting to be asked where to save downloads all the time.

Yes. I enabled this option. But starting folder is always the same. Every time I have to choose the save path. It's not very convenient when you need to sort a lot of downloads into folders.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Usually, the programs in Windows store the last selected folder. And the next time the file save dialog uses it. But not Opera.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

But starting folder is always the same. Every time I have to choose the save path

Here it usually remembers the last used folder.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Here it usually remembers the last used folder.

It doesn't.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

It doesn't.

As I said, it does it here. Maybe you should try with a new profile or a new installation.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I press on a link to download a file. Save file dialog opens "D:" folder. I choose to save file to "D:\Music\Podcasts\June 2015". File starts to download. I click on next link. Save file dialog opens "D:" folder again. But it should open the folder "D:\Music\Podcasts\June 2015".

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Maybe the download should finish first to "fix" your new path?
It should work as Leo has described.

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by

You can put Shortcuts to the needed folders into Downloads folder or put them into SendTo right click menu.

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[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

If every download goes to the same place, the downloads are easy to find.

[Gerhard123]

Gerhard123 last edited by

I feel it is worth it to repeat the OP's issue. It doesn't seem to have been solved yet, and the discussions have strayed quite a bit from it.

Currently you have to navigate the folder list to choose the right folder unless the most recently downloaded file went into the same folder. Much of that effort could be saved if opera kept a smart history with last download location per most similar url (or t least same domain), and launches the save dialog with the path parameter.

For example Firefox remembers the download location per domain.

To summarize:

• Saving every download in the same folder: Opera supports this.
• Saving every download in a custom folder: Opera supports this. It seems to default (at least for me) to the folder where I saved the last download.
• Saving every download in a custom folder, defaulting to the last folder I used for the given domain: Other browsers support this. Opera doesn't seem to -- at least nobody has provided a solution to make it work this way.

I also think that this would be very useful.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Gerhard123 last edited by

@gerhard123 This forum is for suggestions and feature requests, there's nothing to be solved here.

[Gerhard123]

Gerhard123 @leocg last edited by

@leocg Thanks for responding. Opera doesn't remember the last download location per site, and I haven't yet found a plugin that would do this. For me, this is still an unsolved problem.

[MortenCB]

MortenCB @Gerhard123 last edited by

@Gerhard123 I totally agree with the OP here. Most other browsers support this, Opera does not. I was talking about Opera with some friends who considered switching over, and this was a dealbreaker for more than one of them.

The browser should remember the last local download-location for each domain you download from. Shouldn't be hard to implement, or at least offer through some addon.