How To Select Download Destination

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Netflix app for Windows 10 now allows you to download or save movies and TV shows on your PC for offline viewing. With this new feature, Netflix contents are now available for download on iOS, Android, and Windows 10.

Netflix app for Windows 10 allows you to quickly view and manage downloaded movies and TV shows without leaving the app. You can view all downloaded contents, and delete movies and TV shows that you don’t want on your PC anymore.

While you can view the total disk space consumed by all downloaded contents from Netflix by navigating to Netflix’s settings page, the app does not disclose where downloaded movies and TV shows are saved on your PC. Instead, the app shows all downloaded contents within the app without disclosing the actual location on your Windows 10 computer.

Where videos downloaded from Netflix are saved on Windows 10?

How To Select Download Destination In Windows 10

When you download a Netflix movie or TV show using the official app, downloaded contents are stored in a folder on the drive where Windows 10 is installed. If the system drive, the drive where Windows 10 is installed, is filling up fast, you might want to move some of the downloaded Netflix movies and TV shows to some other drives or external drives.

Netflix stores all downloaded movies and TV shows in the following folder:

C:UsersUserNameAppDataLocalPackages4DF9E0F8.Netflix_mcm4njqhnhss8LocalStateofflineInfodownloads

Change Download Destination

In the above path, “C” is the drive where Windows 10 is installed. UserName is the actual user account name.

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Once you navigate to the above directory, you will see all downloaded movies and TV shows. Netflix doesn’t use descriptive names for downloaded contents, so you cannot identify them. However, the size of the file might give you some clue. The biggest catch is that these contents cannot be opened with media players like VLC or GOM Player.

Please bear in mind that Netflix app will not recognize or play contents if you rename or change the files. So, don’t try to rename downloaded Netflix contents.

Change Netflix’s default download location

Although Netflix app for Windows 10 doesn’t offer an option to change the default download location, you can use the workaround in our how to change the Netflix download location in Windows 10 guide to easily move Netflix app and downloaded movies to a different drive. You can use this method to save Netflix to external drives as well.

When we download a file using any Web Browser (Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari etc.). It will be automatically downloaded into default Downloads folder in Windows 7, 8.1, 10. Default Downloads folder doesn’t create any problem and Works well without any issue for all web browsers and downloading softwares such as IDM (Internet Download Manager).

However, we can change download folder location individually by changing download file location in any browser and software-app. But What if you want to change default file download path for all Web browsers, softwares and apps in Windows 10.

Yes, we can change default download folder at the system level. So all Internet Web Browsers, Softwares, and apps will automatically follow system level settings and will automatically change download folder location according to your System Download folder location settings.

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Change default Downloads Folder in Windows 10

If you want to change default downloads folder location in Windows 10 at the system level follow the steps below:

  1. Open Windows File Explorer and right-click on Download available in the left tree.
  2. Now context menu will appear to choose Properties from the menu.
  3. Downloads Properties dialog box will appear, Change the Downloads folder location according to your need. By default it is set to C:UsersusernameDownloads and you can easily change it by entering a location eg C:Downloads or other drive folder location E:Downloads etc. If you want to select folder manually then you can use Move.. button. After clicking on Move.. you can choose the choose location where you want to save default download files. And here it is not necessary to give name Downloads you give other alternate names as you wish.
  4. After changing folder name or location click on OK button.

Now you have been successfully changed Downloads folder name or file store location in Windows 10.

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