I get confused when using Windows 11 downloading a document off of an email on my laptop.

[Eliot Rosewater]

Truthfully I never really learned how to use a computer properly.

Let's say I get an email from an insurance company with a policy document in it and I wanna download it on to my laptop, when I download it I always next go "show in folder" to rename it so I'll be able to find it later, but if I then go into search and type in the name
that I just changed it to it does not come up.


(In fact when I tried to download it I was blocked by my Chrome settings, which I can change but the only change is to allow all auto-downloads from "always allow mail.google.com" ...i might now want to ALWAYS allow that, what option do I have to do this just one at a time?)

Help...

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. If you right click on the attached doc, it should download to either "Downloads" or "Documents"

folders. If these folders are sorted by date, it should be at the top.. Click on the doc name, once, to highlight, then rename. You can move to the desktop, then relocate where ever you want to save it to.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Do you mean right click on it before I open it while it's still in the body of the email?

When I do this my options are

open in new tab
open link in new window
open link incognito
save link as
copy link address
pause on all sites
inspect


what I normally do is hit the Down Arrow to download it onto my laptop and then i get a download blocked message, this blocking thing is new...

I guess I have to solve that first...

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. OK, you might try this...

I just drag the attachment to the desktop amd release it. Does this work for you?

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Thanks, it works if I minimize the browser and am able to still see the

attachment on the bottom of the email.

But I wish I knew how to find a document I have downloaded after changing the name, just the steps on Win 11...