Download/Desktop folders BUG

I've never liked the default of Desktop with Windows and downloads [goes back a ways], gets too crowded. I created a new Folder on the desktop name Desktop and so far no change after saving data to it. Firefox does have a setting that can be changed as to where downloads are saved, great for newer computers with small-capacity C:/OS drives.

RolandJS said:

I have always made d:\downloads and c:\downloads as the default downloads, program by program, browser by browser, etc. Ever since learning that a major Windows update or upgrade or certain re-installs can accidentally lead to the deletion of all EXEs, ZIPs, user-created shortcuts in the Desktop folder -- I have steered away from having anything download to the Windows Desktop. That's just me :)

I hear you. The first thing I do on a PC is remove the Recycle Bin. I keep it in the Start Menu, out of the aesthetic way. After that I only use the desktop as a temporary place for files. I N-E-V-E-R put shortcuts on the desktop -- with the handy taskbar and Start Menu serving me as critical apps and secondary apps.

All this said -- any ideas on how to rename the desktop folder back to itself? Said area is news to this Apple switcher.

My MacBook Pro is now running the latest, macOS Sierra 10.12.1 [note the rename by Apple from Mac OS X]. Shortcuts on it are called an Alias.

For Windows it could be because the Desktop is the first item under This PC. Inside Desktop are all or most of the files and Folders showing on the Desktop, mine is showing the new Desktop Folder I created as a subFolder of Desktop.

Berton said:

For Windows it could be because the Desktop is the first item under This PC. Inside Desktop are all or most of the files and Folders showing on the Desktop, mine is showing the new Desktop Folder I created as a subFolder of Desktop.

Thanks for your reply Berton. A few thoughts --

1. The situation here is that there is no Desktop folder. I mean, there is -- but the system renamed it 'Downloads'.



See the one I circled? That's actually the desktop folder.

2. Or am I looking in the wrong place?

3. Seeing how delicate/confused this system already is the idea of adding a folder called Desktop sounds like a bad idea.