Downloads Folder

Hey everyone!
I'm sorry if I asked the wrong question in a wrong place. I really do not know where to got to ask this question. Here we go. I know how to change my icons on my Mac from Finder to the trash can, but I do not know how to change my Download Folder, and what not. I mean I know how to change it, but when I change the icon to a basket. The stuff I download are not in the basket. They are usually infront of the basket where you can't see the basket, or behind the basket where you can't see what I downloaded. How can I set it up where I can see the basket, and the stuff in my basket. I know this is a hard question to understand. Maybe some of you do know what I'm talking about, but I do need some help please. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!
-Tyson

Are you talking about changing the icon that shows up in the Dock where the Downloads stack is? I assume you're using the method where you put an empty file/folder with the icon you want in the Downloads folder (not actually changing the icon of the downloads folder itself).
The Downloads folder is sorted by the date the file was added (so you can see the order in which you downloaded files). You can right-click it and sort by name to keep a certain icon in front (so the basket would show up above the others).
If you update to 10.5.2 or later, another method that might work better (but you wouldn't be able to actually see the stuff in the basket) would be to set the icon of the Downloads folder itself as the basket (Get Info on the basket, click the icon, copy, get info on the downloads folder, click the icon, paste), and then right click and Display As Folder. This will set the downloads Stack to show the basket (and only the basket, with nothing behind or "in" it) as its icon. When you click it, it would still pop out all of the files in the Downloads folder.

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A friend sent me a RAR file, i unpacked it and nothing appeared in the downloads folder where i unpacked it to ????
after doing this a couple of times as i thought it might be a blip, i deleted everything in the folder. but the folder states the size of it is 4.5gb for 0 items?
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I presume my computer is playing up:
In the Firefox preferences,
I have selected "Show the Downloads window when downloading a file"
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nor saves the download to the folder.
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Hi,
I've been trying to wrestle with my Mail Downloads folder location without success, so I thought I would ask.
I dislike having a separate "Mail Downloads" folder because stuff accumulates endlessly there. The default Mail Downloads is at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads. Here's what I have tried:
The obvious: change "Downloads folder" in Mail prefs. No matter what I choose, the files are still downloaded to the default folder.
I removed ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads and made it a symlink to my ~/Downloads folder (where I'd like to put everything). This causes opening attachments from Mail to hang (I have to save them first, and then open from the saved location). I get these messages in Console (in this example, trying to open an attachment named "Manual.pdf", and PID 56818 is the Mail app):
9/13/12 11:52:29.707 AM CoreServicesUIAgent[56818]: Quarantine resolution refused to pid 56809 because it is not allowed to read /Users/a10022/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads/Manual.pdf
9/13/12 11:52:29.000 AM kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(56817) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
9/13/12 11:52:30.221 AM sandboxd[56817]: ([56809]) Mail(56809) deny file-issue-extension /Users/a10022/Downloads/Manual.pdf
9/13/12 11:52:30.238 AM sandboxd[56817]: ([56809]) Mail(56809) deny file-issue-extension /Users/a10022/Downloads/Manual.pdf
9/13/12 11:52:30.253 AM sandboxd[56817]: ([56809]) Mail(56809) deny file-issue-extension /Users/a10022/Downloads/Manual.pdf
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--Diego

Hi,
I have spent quit some time on this and there is no decent option to do so. Mail is a buggy product since it ignores the default preferences. Old tricks with the symbolic link don't work. Most likely because Apple wants you to look at all the nice inline attachments in stead of treating them as a real attachment. Just like they do in their commercials.
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Hiya
I was wondering what the mail downloads folder actually does. I know there is a clue in the title but what I mean to say is this.
1 - Does the mail downloads folder contain all attachments to emails OR
2 - Does the mail downloads folder contain files opened directly from Mail?
I want to know if I delete all the 112mb of files in this folder will I delete the attachments in the emails themselves? Will the attachments still be there for saving elsewhere?
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You are very right, the help file contained the advice below. I think I will make the suggested changes and get the program to delete the items in the folder on exit. Thanks for the tip it was very useful.
Setting the location for attachments that you open in Mail
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