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user download folder missing
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You should have write permissions for your home folder, so just create a folder and name it Downloads. Mac OS X takes care of the icon-related magic for you.
Eh? That's not true at all... versions of Mac OS X prior to Leopard defaulted to downloading things to the desktop. Leopard and later have a dedicated Downloads folder in each user's home folder for this purpose.
"New Folder" is grayed out in the finder menu when I am in the user/home window and I also tried the quick key command for new folder and no luck.
If you can't create a folder in your home directory, it sounds like you have permissions problems.
Open Disk Utility and run a permissions repair on your system hard drive, then reboot.
Open Disk Utility and run a permissions repair on your system hard drive, then reboot.
That was the problem, I wasn't even listed as a user. Fixed that with read/write privileges and volia, I now have a download folder. Thanks!