These features might generate activity even when you have just one static page open. For example, opening numerous tabs or visiting sites with auto-updating content/ads will increase any browser’s background activity.īut much of Chrome’s disk activity is inherent to Chrome itself - and mostly due to its privacy and Safe Browsingfeatures. Some of these are obvious and not specific to Chrome. A What's My Computer Doing? report shows Chrome's constant disk activity.Ĭhrome’s background activity appears to depend on a variety of factors. That’s pretty much it! If you have any other questions about Chrome, feel free to post a comment.Figure 2.
The Save as dialog will continue to come up until the target disk is available again. If not, it will simply bring up a dialog where you can choose the location for the download. So, basically, if it’s a path it can re-create, it will go ahead and create the path and save the download there. 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. However, this was most likely because it was a different folder I had chosen on my system partition. 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. Well, I was hoping that it would default back to the default location (Downloads folder) when you first install Chrome, but it doesn’t. In my first test, I chose a different folder on my C drive and then deleted it. you unplug the external hard drive, etc., then what happens? Now if the download target suddenly disappears, i.e.
Like I mentioned before, you can choose an external drive, a shared folder, a network drive, etc. Go ahead and click on the Change button and choose a new location. Now scroll down more until you get to the Downloads section.
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