Safari Tahoe: Changing default download location from Desktop does not work

Screen Capture has nothing to do with where Safari downloads files. Safari has its own setting for where it downloads and the default is the “Downloads” folder, not the “Desktop.” Screen Capture defaults to “Desktop,” but I have changed it to one I named, “screenshots,” and it has never not saved to that folder. I have seen here that the Dropbox cloud storage interferes with the Screen Capture location, but I think it took it out of “Desktop.”

Which one are you trying to change, and as dialabrain asked, where is the “inbox” folder located?

Juha_Antero wrote:

OK, now Safari delivers downloads to folder Inbox which is a subfolder of folder Documents.

It is the Capture Tool that does not comply: It accepts my "Inbox" folder as a destination, but does not comply.

Juha

Safari—

Screen shots—

Shift Command 5 make changes to suit your needs

Take screenshots or screen recordings on Mac - Apple Support

if there is some buried directory it does not comply with, change it to something more conventional

You can submit your Apple Feedback here: Feedback - Mail - Apple.

Assuming 'Inbox' is a folder you created on your Desktop, it should be selectable as a download location. I created one, selected it in Safari Preferences > General tab, and that's where downloads go.

I believe the default is Downloads. I had to change it to Desktop. Where exactly is the "Inbox" folder you are referring to?

I set up an Inbox folder in Documents and changed my location to that and it worked. I don't know why yours doesn't.