When downloading any file from the internet, all content ise stored directly in the Downloads folder, a folder that we can access directly from the Dock, since it is next to the recycle bin. By always having the folder always at hand, it is not necessary to browse the Finder looking for the downloaded files or to see how little by little our desktop is filling up with files, in most cases useless. But what if the downloads folder has been accidentally deleted? Through the Finder we can access it, but it already requires us to do more than one step so we lose immediacy.
Fortunately, this little problem has a very simple solution. This solution is the same one that we can use to place in the Dock any folder that we want to always have at hand and stop opening the damn Finder to always access the same directory. To put the Downloads folder back in the Dock, we must proceed as follows.
Restore the Downloads folder in the Dock
- First we open the Finder
- Then you go to the top menu and click on the menu Ir. Then click on the option Home.
- The Finder will show us all the system folders assigned to our user. To show the Downloads folder again, we just have to schoose it and drag it to the Dock, specifically to the area where it was previously.
- Once we carry out this operation, we will see how the Downloads folder reappears in the original location.
macOS does not allow us to locate any folder in the Applications Dock, Therefore, both the Downloads folder and any other folder that we want to add to the Dock, must be located on the right side of it, just below the vertical line next to the last application shown.