By default, Chrome downloads files to the "Downloads" folder in your user account. If you would rather save them to a different location, you can easily change the Chrome download folder location.

Click the Chrome card button (3 horizontal bars) in the upper-right corner of the Chrome window and select "Settings" from the drop-down menu.

The "Settings" screen displays on a new tab.

Scroll down to the bottom of the "Settings" screen and click the "Show advanced settings" link.

We're going to ready a new default folder as the location where Chrome saves downloaded files. However, you can accept Chrome ask you every fourth dimension to choose the download folder location. To exercise this, select the "Ask where to relieve each file before downloading" check box then in that location is a check mark in the box.

To modify the download binder location, click "Change" to the right of the "Download location" edit box.

On the "Browse For Folder" dialog box, navigate to the binder where you want to salve folders by default and click "OK".

The path to the selected folder displays in the "Download location" edit box. This location displays in the "Save Every bit" every bit the default location, if yous've selected the "Inquire where to save each file before downloading" bank check box. Click the "X" button on the "Settings" tab to close information technology.

At that place are additional actions you tin take on downloads. To open up the "Downloads" listing, press "Ctrl + J" or select "Downloads" from the Chrome card (iii horizontal bars) in the upper-correct corner of the window. You can likewise enter "chrome://downloads" in the Omnibox (address box) and press "Enter".

The downloaded files are listed in order of about recent to farthest dorsum in fourth dimension. To remove an item from the "Downloads" list, click the "Remove from listing" link below the item.

To open up the folder containing one of the downloaded files, click the "Bear witness in binder" link below that detail.

Once you have downloaded a file, you can apace and hands move it to another location by dragging and dropping it from the "Downloads" list in Chrome to a folder in File Explorer or whatsoever other file browser you are using.

TIP: It'due south a practiced idea to clear out your downloaded files listing on occasion and so finding files in the listing doesn't get too hard.

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