remember last download location per website
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fredo34 last edited by
When Opera is set to ask for location before downloading, the save dialog will default to the last folder where whatever file has been downloaded to.
However you often have repetitive download tasks that depend very much on the domain/website. For example you get regularly every week a pdf from website W1 and store it in location L1, then a pdf from W2 to L2, then a video from W3 to the video folder etc.
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.
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fredo34 last edited by
Sorry, but this is both a frequent and serious issue for me. I just came back curious how this suggestion is perceived.
If you always download from a different site, it's not your use case and I can fully understand that from your perspective it appears unnecessary.
Are there Opera users with the same use case who regularly download files (literature, exercises etc.) from same web pages and organize them in a folder structure? I know, many of such users are on Firefox.
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donq last edited by
I don't sort downloads initially (I download most of my files to desktop anyway and clean my desktop when it fills itself up), but I can see good uses for such feature - thereby +1
But I agree that such feature must be smart. I would want all downloads go into default folder and ability to set specific location for specific domains; blindly remembering dowload locations for every domain would be not that good.
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bcbounders last edited by
It's more than a year later... and I'd still like to see the Firefox behavior (remembering the download location on a per site basis) in Opera. Even if it was just an extension! It's one of those minor things that just helps make the browser feel more helpful... and it's something that I miss having switched from Firefox to Opera.
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A Former User last edited by
The fact that the opera tries to keep everything in one folder is very annoying. What kind of fool decided that this behavior is correct?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
What kind of fool decided that this behavior is correct?
Bill Gates?
Having unique folders for downloads, images, documents, etc is something that started in OS.
The fact that the opera tries to keep everything in one folder is very annoying
You can enable the setting to be asked where to save downloads all the time.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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 last edited byYou 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 last edited by
If every download goes to the same place, the downloads are easy to find.
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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.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@gerhard123 This forum is for suggestions and feature requests, there's nothing to be solved here.
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Gerhard123 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.
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MortenCB 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.
