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I just programmed the following code for downloading a document to a specific folder, however it keeps downloading in the default folder Downloads, what is the problem?? THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR HELPING

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
import time
import os

options = Options();
options.set_preference("browser.download.dir","/Desktop/test-download");
options.set_preference("browser.download.folderList",2);
options.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", False);
options.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/vnd.ms- 
powerpoint");
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_options=options);

driver.get("https://legacy.python.org/doc/essays/ppt/lwnyc2002/intro22.ppt") 
driver.find_element_by_xpath("**xpath of document**").click()
DavidS
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Diego Garcia Cabido
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You will have to use FirefoxProfile for this action (indentation may be broken):

fprofile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
fprofile.set_preference("browser.download.dir", "/Desktop/test-download")
fprofile.set_preference("browser.download.folderList", 2)
fprofile.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", False)
fprofile.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/vnd.ms- 
powerpoint")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)
theGuy
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