Android @lemmy.world AndrewZabar @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Please help i want to change the default download location

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20366420

Hello all,

Probably might seem like a dumb question, but I have searched and tried everything I could find.

I have a Galaxy A12, running Android 12. I have a high capacity microSD card in it, where I store lots or stuff.

For the life of me I cannot find a way to set the download folder on said SD card as the default location to which to download.

I cannot find anywhere in the OS settings, and I have searched and searched and looked online. I could not even get a setting in Firefox whereby I could establish this preference. One article stated you need to go into about:config ... well, that is just blank.

For bleeps sake I was able to do this on my goddamn pocket PC in the year 2000 with two freaking taps on the screen. How the hell have they gone out of their way to devolve some fundamental concepts??

Anyway, my ranting notwithstanding, I am hoping to be delightfully abashed when someone points to some obvious thing I managed to overlook. But it's not seeming likely.

Please help :-@

3 comments

I don't think that you can. Downloads is 'protected' location these days too.

If you're using something like Syncthing, you can't connect a Syncthing folder to it.
- Such asinine planning. Literally regressed after being able to change it for decades in any device that offered expanded storage.
  
  I guess maybe I could format an sd as internal use, since it just mounts it seamlessly as part of internal storage. Sucks to have to do that though.
  
  Edit: hey I find the downvotes weird. I mean… ok they’re meaningless but what do people have a problem with? The truth? Expandable storage allowing you to set the download and camera and documents all to the larger storage so you don’t fill up your limited internal storage - we could do that with freakin pocket pc 2000.
  
  I guess today they’ll do anything they can to coerce people to buy larger internal capacity so they decided to roll back the clock on some tech concepts that have been better for decades already. Okay that is the cynic in me talking but really, can anyone offer a better explanation?
  
  Tell me about it. I have a mobile 'downloads' and a mobile 'Yorkdownloads' being my desktop downloads folder synced with Syncthing but I have to move the files between the two folders repeatedly! FML.