cmd-option-l opens the downloads folder but you have to be in finder in order for it to work just as with all finder commands. For instance, cmd-shift-a opens applications folder only if you are in finder; cmd-shift-o opens Documents folder but only if you are in finder. Cmd-option-l doesn't open your downloads progress window and it won't open your downloads folder either if you do it from within safari. I don't know if that's what you did but that's a possibility. Personally, I think there should be a safari preference to control this so you can choose whether the downloads progress window opens when you start a download or not. You have two different issues here: opening a window in safari (the downloads progress window) and opening the downloads older (a finder action and location). -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Aug 5, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter <markbaxter38@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Okay, must be my error; I thought Command Option L opened up the downloads > stable in a new window. I know about the tool bar button, but didn't try > that. The point was that Command Option L didn't do a thing, neither open a > table nor take me to the Finder window with the downloads folder in it. I > usually leave a finder window open to Downloads anyway, so wouldn't have used > that method from Safari to check on a file. I just wondered why I couldn't > get the table to pop up/; it's nothing I couldn't work around. > > > • Mark BurningHawk Baxter > • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 > • MSN: BurningHawk1969@xxxxxxxxxxx > • My home page: > • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ > >> >> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >> >> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> >> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>