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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index eec61d9..1bc3045 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -540,6 +540,24 @@ context menu at a time was the thing that made it awkward. Selection is remembered as you walk into folders, so you can tick something in one and something else in another before choosing an action. +**Where downloads are written** is a setting, under Settings → Downloads: + +- **Save automatically** (the default) writes into a folder you pick once, with + no dialog. Downloading twenty files puts twenty files there. A name already in + use gets a suffix — `clip (2).mp4` — rather than replacing what is there. +- **Ask every time** opens a Save As dialog per file, which is right for one file + and wrong for a selection of twenty. + +A web page cannot be given a filesystem path, and cannot read one either: there +is no `~/Downloads` to configure, on any operating system, and nothing changes +here on Windows for the same reason. What a browser grants is access to a folder +the user picked in a dialog, and MeshBay only ever writes inside it. That grant +is remembered, but the browser may ask you to confirm it once per session. + +Firefox and Safari have no File System Access API, so no folder can be granted: +downloads go to the browser's own download folder, and Settings says so instead +of offering a choice that would do nothing. + **Transfers run outside the page.** They are listed in the widget next to the bell, with a progress bar, the current rate, and a cancel button each: |