If it’s another web page, of course your browser will display it. When you click on a link, your browser may do several different things, depending on what the link points to. This example link shows the entire URL, but you’ll also see download links that look more readable:Įither will get you the same download. It contains roughly the first 10% of that book, including its table of contents: This is a link to the PDF sample I make available for The Ask Leo! Guide to Routine Maintenance. We’ll learn how to avoid that.Īnd we’ll look at how to find your file, regardless of where it landed.įirst, here’s an example file for you to download. There’s another place that downloads often end up that’s kind of dangerous, as it gets “cleaned up” every so often – meaning you could eventually lose your download. We’ll look at why, and how to fix it as well. Typically they go into your “Downloads” or “My Documents” folder, so we’ll look at how best to check that.īut it’s also possible that they went into the same folder as the last download.