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Avoid a cluttered download folder by using /tmp
Authored by: astack on Jan 08, '14 06:52:24AM

This is similar to what I do as well, I make the Downloads folder a symbolic link to my Desktop folder and then periodically clear this out. However, I still have to look at that "Downloads" icon sitting in my Finder and terminal windows. What I would like is a way to remove that completely and for the OS to just use the Desktop (or /tmp or whatever) as its default download location without forcing me to have something called "Downloads". It seems like you could do this by editing the file called "/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemFolderLocalizations/en.lproj/SystemFolderLocalizations.strings", which I think is a plist format file that contains the reference to a "Downloads" entry. But there must be another reference to it somewhere because editing this alone does not cause the Downloads directory to stop being recreated.

Edited on Jan 08, '14 06:53:30AM by astack



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