Where is my downloads? I've clicked on this so many times and I don't see... here it is.
I've got four copies now.
Have you had this problem?
I found so many people talking to me, asking me,
how do I download this or that?
and I thought, well how do you download anything?
So it seems like a lot of people don't know how to download files! So I thought
I'll make a video on how to do this.
So in this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to download files of any type within three different popular web browsers.
So stick around...
So I get questions about how to download a file, and then when I remote into their computer to
find out why they're not able to download, it wasn't that they aren't able to download. They've
downloaded multiple copies of the same file, just because they couldn't see where the file is.
and a lot of cases it's right there like in Google Chrome, it's right at the bottom of the screen here;
and you see multiple copies of the file. So I'm going to show you in this video with a few
different web browsers how to do it. So let's have a look on my screen.
As an example here we're using Google Chrome.
We're on a website here that we want to download something.
It really doesn't matter what kind of file it is.
So we're going to go to download.
Now, this it would have already started.
So we'll hit download now, because we didn't see it, and this is where most people will say, well
I don't see anything popping up on my screen. There's no prompt where to save it or anything
and say, well where's the file? So my first question is, what kind of web browser is it?
Okay so we're using Google Chrome.
Look down.
Way down.
okay look all the way over the left.
There it is;
and it tells you how much is downloaded out of how much and how much time is remaining in downloading the file.
and it's got a little swirly going around showing that it's in the process of downloading.
When this is done, we'll be able to click on it to open it or you can hit the little arrow to the right of it
and it'll say open when done. So it'll just schedule to open it automatically when it's done.
You can say always open files of this type. You can pause it or show in folder which will simply take
you to the download section on your computer and you can see the file there with the date and time
when it was downloaded. Right now it's got a weird name just because it's not finished yet.
Now we can see the file is done downloading because it flashed a little bit. It doesn't have
the time remaining or how much of the file is downloading. It just simply has the name.
So at this point you can either just click on the file to run it or open it if it's an
executable, it'll run it. If it's a PDF or some file to view then it'll open it for viewing.
Over here we can open the file this way instead of just clicking on the name and you
can also go to show in folder and we can see now the name of the file in our downloads. It just
takes us straight to the downloads folder and it shows the date time when it was downloaded.
That was Google Chrome. Let's have a look at Edge.
So the exact same file we're going to be downloading, from the exact same website.
We'll click download now, and you can see in the top right corner.
It's got to be different of course in a different location. That's why I always ask people when they ask me where is my download?
I asked them what web browser they're using. With edge it's in the top right corner.
It's got a little circle with a down arrow
and the little blue circle is starting to fill in
and it's got the name and just like in chrome it's got the amount that is downloaded,
out of how much of the maximum file size, and how much time is remaining;
and with this you actually have a pause button.
So if it's taking a long time and you have something else that you want to have priority over and then continue to download later,
you can pause this thing and it says paused, and then you can resume it again later when you want to.
Also you can cancel it from here if you decide that it was a mistake for some reason.
and you can see when it's done, what it looks like here. The down arrow has a green check beside it so
it lets you know that it's available for you to now go in here and again you can open the file
right from here or go into open the folder where it's stored and you'll see the file is here.
Finally in Mozilla Firefox. Same website. I'm going to go to download now and you'll see
in the top right corner there's a circle with a blue pie chart and it's kind of filling in the circle.
If we click on it we can see the name of the file and again the time and the amount that's
downloaded. You can have this open if you want and watch it along till it's done or you can click
off and start browsing going to different websites and that will continue to fill in until it's done.
and you can see that it shows that the icon changed, letting you know that the download is done.
So we can click on that and again you have the option of either clicking on it to open it
anywhere on here or hitting the little folder icon to go into your downloads directly and find the file right here.
All 3 browsers have an option of either just downloading to the downloads folder
or prompting you to choose where you want to save the file each time.
So if you're prompted to save it, then you can choose where it's going to go to but if it doesn't prompt you it's going to go straight to the downloads
and either way, you'll still see the same icon showing you in the same way prompting you when the file is done downloading
and it's available for you to open it.
That's it for this tutorial. I hope you did find it helpful.
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Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you in the next one. Bye for now.
You know what that's really sucks.
Take two.
That looks like four.
Take two.
That's much better.
Take three.