Stop PDFs from being saved in Downloads folder - already checked settings

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I noticed my download folder is filled with PDFs. It seems every time I open one up from any website, it automatically gets saved even though brave://settings/content/pdfDocuments has the “download PDFs” unticked. The “open PDFs in Brave” is checked, because apparently one of the two has to be checked off.

I tried checking “download PDFs” instead, hoping it might prompt me for a location - nope. The PDFs are opening in Adobe Reader, which is what I want, but I don’t want them to be saved in downloads. For example, my bank statements - I would rather they be saved in folders for each account, in my Documents folder. As it is now, I have to save them from Adobe, then delete the downloaded files in Download.

Is there any way around this? Thank you for your help.

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We haven’t changed the default behaviour from Chrome/Chromium here, I believe it may change based on the last saved file. There maybe extensions that adjust how pdf’s are handled, but we’re just mirror default Chromium behaviour regarding saving/viewing pdfs.

Any changes (bug reports) to this should reported to https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list

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Thanks for the reply - I already had those settings. But I appreciate the help!

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