Jan 31, 2011 Computer - MacBook Software - Mac OS X 10.5.8 Internet - Safari I want to download a large file directly to my external drive. It is to large to copy to the internal drive and then copy over. That's what I do, I keep my games installed on external HDD. And play them on. You can't download the games directly to the drive (You could, but it would be. As to the question, IF the external drive is ON LINE, you can change the download location to a folder there. Note: Remember to clean out the hard drive now and then. I have a 1 TB hard drive and a 3 TB external. I use the external for everything I have.
Is there any way to download a torrent directly to an external hard drive? I've been downloading torrents to my internal hard drive and then transferring them over to my external one. But lately my internal hard drive has been acting up a bit. Apr 25, 2016 - Right-click on the file you want to download and download directly to a. (in the Safari menu) and select a different download destination in the.
Where Is My External Hard Drive
Torrenting straight to/from a USB external hard drive?
External Hard Drive 1tb
I'm aware that leeching/seeding from an external USB hard drive is possible. However, I'm concerned about the behavior of the hard drive - as with most external drives, mine powers down when not in use.
Will this affect seeding and give me random I/O errors?
Will this cause the hard drive to wear out faster, since it would potentially be spinning up and down repeatedly?
Anyone have experience with this?
Thanks!
Here’s a quick post for those looking to change the location of the downloads folder in Google Chrome. You may want to do this for many different reasons, but for most people, it’s probably because you are running out of space on your local hard drive. I moved my downloads folder to my NAS (Network Attached Storage) device. Since it’s on the network and always connected, I don’t have to worry about it suddenly getting disconnected.
I’ll talk about what happens if you do change the location to an external hard drive that can occasionally become disconnected. First let me show you how to actually change the download location in Chrome.
Change Downloads Folder in Google Chrome
First, click on the three dots icon at the top right and click on Settings.
Then scroll down to the bottom and click on Advanced.
Now scroll down more until you get to the Downloads section.
Go ahead and click on the Change button and choose a new location. Like I mentioned before, you can choose an external drive, a shared folder, a network drive, etc. to save the downloads to. There really is no restriction. Now if the download target suddenly disappears, i.e. you unplug the external hard drive, etc., then what happens?
In my first test, I chose a different folder on my C drive and then deleted it. Well, I was hoping that it would default back to the default location (Downloads folder) when you first install Chrome, but it doesn’t. Instead, it does something I wasn’t quite expecting! In my case, it created the folder in the path I specified and then saved it there. However, this was most likely because it was a different folder I had chosen on my system partition.
When I tried to change the downloads folder to an external drive and then disconnected the drive and performed a download, it ended up giving me the Save as dialog box.
So, basically, if it’s a path it can re-create, it will go ahead and create the path and save the download there. If not, it will simply bring up a dialog where you can choose the location for the download. The Save as dialog will continue to come up until the target disk is available again. That’s pretty much it! If you have any other questions about Chrome, feel free to post a comment. Enjoy!