Have the download function of files allow you to select the destination
Currently files are downloaded only to the DOWNLOAD folder. Allow a save as function / select download location.
Felix L
shared this idea
Unfortunately because of changing priorities, this feature was moved to the backlog. The team hopes to pick it up again in the near future.
707 comments
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Anonymous
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Would be great to have the option to decide where Team puts downloads, other than the downloads folder.
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Andrew
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why not just allow files to be opened in a new window - like chats can now!
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Mira Alem
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I would like this functionality added ASAP. This is very basic functionality. Hard to think what is keeping MS Teams team busy apart from basic features like this. I still cant think of, on what basis, it is moved to backlog. Copying every time from defaults download folder to the folder that i need those files is very annoying. Please address this ASAP.
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Garrett Michael Hayes
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As I understand it, the "priorities" seem to revolve around the sexier glitz and glam features and/or rolling Teams out to the general public. A simple, FUNCTIONAL fix such as this seems to be consistently ignored.
Please move this from the backlog" to the FRONT log. If there's confusion about how to implement such a function, perhaps you could borrow some code examples from - oh, I don't know - EVERY OTHER PRODUCT GROUP IN MICROSOFT?!
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Anonymous
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Adding my vote. Would like this functionality in Teams.
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Anonymous
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Please implement this. Or atleast a way to change the download folder in the settings section. This is pathetic it's been 3 years and the response back is "due to changing priorities". This should be a 1 hour development fix.
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TravisD
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I would like this functionality added ASAP. Very important to a lot of us, as you can see from the comments.
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Michael
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5244 votes and 699 comments on this as I write, likely more as you read... this is an incredibly simple decision when making a software like Teams to include... I mean, Excel and all the Office programs have it -- why would Big Brother not?
Anyways... Microsoft, I just want to let you know... this is a fail.
Please address asap.
From all of us,
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Anonymous
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I would like this functionality added ASAP. Very important to a lot of us, as you can see from the comments.
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Curious
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Today I discovered that it's impossible to choose the destination folder when downloading files from MS Teams, and I laughed so hard.
Think about it - we got the luxurious blurred background feature before the possibility to choose the downloads folder - isn't it amazingly ridiculous?
Thank you for bringing tears to my eyes by not implementing a basic feature requested more than 3 years ago! -
Anonymous
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Seriously? We have been saving files to the file system location of our choice since before MSDOS, waayyy before 'user stories' was a thing. But whoever specced Teams did not think a user might want to save a file to the folder (used to be called directories) of his/her preference?
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Anonymous
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This is basic and should have existed from the beginning, since it doesn't at least hurry up and fix it! It shouldn't take you two plus years to do it.
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RK
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Come on guys, it's 2020! Far too simple a functionality for us to have to vote on to get attention.
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Charles
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Hi, people. Maybe there is a way to "fool" the software and change the default download dir to another location. I had this problem also with chrome and I found (Google) an answer to fix it. On Chrome, it works. Reserach about "mklink /d" command. You'll need the cmd prompt as admin, then the "mklink /d", the default location path of the dir location AND the new location. The idea is make a link from de default to the new folder. Software "think" it will be recording on the default dir, but actually its recording on the new dir of your choice. I'll not put anything here because I didn'n test it on Teams. On Chrome, works 100%.
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Julia
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I'm really surprised that this works for every software I know except for MS Teams! Voted to fix this!
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Anonymous
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i think we are now in the "near future" since Jan 2020. Can this be done??
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Gary
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We cannot use the download function, since everyone's download folder is redirected to a user folder under a network share. Download always ends in failure. What can we do?
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Anonymous
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This is very basic functionality. Hard to think what is keeping MS Teams team busy apart from basic features like this. I still cant think of, on what basis, it is moved to backlog. Copying every time from defaults download folder to the folder that i need those files is very annoying. Please address this ASAP.
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Anonymous
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Where can i find a downloded file? Not sure where i could find and run.
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Charles
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Don't hope for it! Do it! It's an insult don't let us choose where WE want the download. We now use ssds drives. We don't want em full of trash or full of holes. In fact, I want it unused until I decide put something on it. Who are the "genius" now behind the brilliant ideias about the softwares features/development? C'mon!