I have selected "Ask where to save each file before downloading" in Chrome, however, whenever I download a file from my email it goes directly to download and opens in Word. I don't want them there. I want to choose! I have many folders for different clients and need to compartmentalize before I open the file. I have Windows 10.
Any suggestions?
13 Answers
I ran into this issue today where chrome was automatically downloading a text file into the downloads folder without asking where to put it even though I had the chrome setting configured to always ask for the location. I also didn't like the idea of resetting all my settings just to try to get this to work. This happened for some types and not others.
What I did to fix the issue in my case is the following:
- Go to Chrome settings
- Search for "Download"
- At the bottom where the download options, clear option to always open in an application. It's a third option that showed up, but once it's "cleared" doesn't show up again.
After these steps, I was immediately able to always be asked where to download files.
3You might need to also need to set Set download directory option to Disabled state.
0Go to
Settings -> Lite Mode -> Off
Lite Mode makes google chrome work faster and consumes less data.
So it doesn't allow where to save downloads option when it is on.
