Files downloaded to desktop are not appearing

**powerpenguin** · February 9th, 2006, 11:56 AM

Files I downloaded to the desktop are not appearing.

**Auggie2k** · February 9th, 2006, 11:59 AM

Are you sure your downloading them to your desktop?

Check your My Documents and C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Desktop

EDIT: Keep it to one thread please.

**Boomer The Dog** · February 9th, 2006, 12:19 PM

That was a problem in Windows 98, when my desktop got full with icons from downloading, new files would look like they weren't downloaded. When it first happened, I didn't know what was going on.

I don't know if that happens in newer Windows, but do what Oggie said -- do a search for a folder called Desktop, (that folder holds whatever is on the Desktop) and see if the missing files are in there.

**Vampmon** · February 9th, 2006, 12:22 PM

I thought they were not appearing, when i installed IE-7 it saved them to My Documents, instead of the Desktop, so check there ...

**kokanezub** · February 9th, 2006, 03:04 PM

yea make sure their to you account and not another user on your computer,if not then try saving to a different folder

**shawners** · February 9th, 2006, 04:31 PM

why the hell would you download them to your desktop??? Make a folder in your documents, and make other folders in there called Music/Software/Torrents/Movies/MIsc . And then choose those directory to save them to.

**nukehella** · February 9th, 2006, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by shawners

why the hell would you download them to your desktop??? Make a folder in your documents, and make other folders in there called Music/Software/Torrents/Movies/MIsc . And then choose those directory to save them to.

Maybe because it's his computer and thats where he wants them to go temporarily.It doesn't make him a retard or a loser,just someone who varies from you in a slight way.

**Krell** · February 9th, 2006, 05:43 PM

Is it his HOME desktop, or work? What profiles are set up?

Do they have hidden attributes? (show hidden files)

**Pirate_RRRRRR_IIIIII** · February 9th, 2006, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by shawners

why the hell would you download them to your desktop??? Make a folder in your documents, and make other folders in there called Music/Software/Torrents/Movies/MIsc . And then choose those directory to save them to.

I'm glad someone else is with me on file tidyness, nothing is worse than an unorganized cluttered pc.

**Krell** · February 9th, 2006, 10:23 PM

Not to overstate the obvious, but did you SEARCH > My Computer, for the file name or part of it?

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**nukehella** · February 9th, 2006, 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by Pirate_RRRRRR_IIIIII

I'm glad someone else is with me on file tidyness, nothing is worse than an unorganized cluttered pc.

I'm with you on the tidiness.Downloading stuff to your desktop is not necessarily untidy though,I do it a lot with files I want to check out fairly soon.(not movies)After I'm done playing around with them I put them in the appropriate folder on the appropriate partion on the appropriate drive on the appropriate machine.I defrag fanatically so there are no performance issues.Right now my desktop has 3 folders,one torrent and the recycling bin on it.That's a tidy desktop.
Putting everything you download in one folder like my documents or a custom folder is untidy to me.I want to download it,test it ,classify it,clean up after it and put it where it belongs fairly quickly or it sits somewhere for months until I get around to it.And by then I might have well forgot what it is and what I wanted it for in the first place.

**thepuzzler** · February 10th, 2006, 04:37 AM

I'm with you on the tidiness.Downloading stuff to your desktop is not necessarily untidy though,I do it a lot with files I want to check out fairly soon.(not movies)After I'm done playing around with them I put them in the appropriate folder on the appropriate partion on the appropriate drive on the appropriate machine.I defrag fanatically so there are no performance issues.Right now my desktop has 3 folders,one torrent and the recycling bin on it.That's a tidy desktop.
Putting everything you download in one folder like my documents or a custom folder is untidy to me.I want to download it,test it ,classify it,clean up after it and put it where it belongs fairly quickly or it sits somewhere for months until I get around to it.And by then I might have well forgot what it is and what I wanted it for in the first place.

Seconded. I download straight to my desktop first, then redistribute the files to my second hard to their correct locations. My desktop is basically a temp folder.

**powerpenguin** · February 10th, 2006, 10:41 AM

Using Firefox to download to desltop folder. Didn't search using Search. The Pc is a home PC.

Put Vindows XP again on after giving careful consideration to throwing it out the window (ha ha).

**Boomer The Dog** · February 10th, 2006, 01:12 PM

The time I downloaded everything to the Desktop, I was a nube at computers, so I'd 'lose' stuff if I put it somewhere else. If I used the Desktop, it was right where I could see it.

To clean up, I started to drag everything on the Deskop to My Documents, and that got full of misc. files, until I made folders for different things like Programs, Video, Music..

I sure had a trashy computer when I got my own system; I should have given it the name The_Dumpster, that would have been about right..