How To Put Downloads Into A Folder

Organize files in folders on Mac

Everything on your Mac—documents, pictures, music, apps, and more—is organized in folders. Equally you create documents, install apps, and exercise other work, you lot can create new folders to go on yourself organized.

A Finder window containing files and folders. In the shortcut menu, New Folder is highlighted.

Create a folder

On your Mac, click the Finder icon in the Dock to open a Finder window, and then navigate to where you want to create the folder.

Alternatively, click the desktop if you want to create the folder on the desktop.
Choose File > New Folder, or press Shift-Command-N.

If the New Binder command is dimmed, you tin't create a folder in the current location.
Enter a name for the folder, then press Return.

Motion items into folders

On your Mac, click the Finder icon in the Dock to open a Finder window.
Practise whatsoever of the post-obit:
- Put an item in a folder: Drag it to the folder.
- Put several items in a folder: Select the items, and then drag one of the items to the folder.
  
  All selected items move to the folder.
- Put a window's content in a binder: Move the arrow to the immediate left of the window title until an icon appears, then drag the icon to the folder.
  
  You lot can press and concur the Shift key to take the icon appear immediately when you move the pointer into the title area. You can as well drag the beginning of the window title to the folder without waiting for the icon to announced.
- Keep an item in its original location and put a copy in a binder: Select the item, printing and hold the Option key, then drag the item to the folder.
- Keep an item in its original location and put an alias for it in a new folder: Press and hold the Option and Control keys, then drag the item to the folder to create the alias.
- Brand a copy of an item within the same folder: Select the detail, and then choose File > Duplicate or press Command-D.
- Re-create files to a unlike disk: Elevate the files to the disk.
- Motion files to a different disk: Press and hold the Command key, then drag the files to the disk.

Chop-chop group multiple items into a new folder

You can quickly create a folder of items on the desktop or in a Finder window.

On your Mac, select all the items you want to group together.
Command-click one of the selected items, then choose New Folder with Selection.
Enter a name for the folder, then press Return.

Merge ii folders with the same name

If y'all have 2 folders with identical names at 2 different locations, you can merge them into a single folder.

On your Mac, printing and hold the Option key, so drag one folder to the location that contains a binder with the same proper name. In the dialog that appears, click Merge.

The Merge selection appears only if ane of the folders contains items that are not in the other folder. If the folders contain different versions of identically named files, the only options are Terminate or Replace.

To keep a handy listing of files together that have something in common, based on criteria y'all specify, use a Smart Folder.