Check recently downloaded files with command window

Could you please provide an explanation of what exactly the command does? Improve this question. What are "recently accessed files"? I would assume Nautilus recent files? See askubuntu. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Using find : find. For files accessed less than 30 minutes ago: find. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Therefore, after download has finished, you should open Windows Explorer or File Explorer in your computer to find the files.

Often you will find a lot of files in the Download folder. You could feel confused in locating the file you had just downloaded a moments ago.

In such a case, do as below:. In some cases, download location could be set something other than the default download folder. If you could not locate the recently downloaded file using the above method, chances are that the files have been downloaded elsewhere.

In such a case, take the following steps:. File download managers have a feature similar to browsers. The settings are normally where you can set the folder that all files should be downloaded to. Right-click the downloaded file or the in-progress download in the torrent client. The context menu will have an option called open containing folder, or something similar. Clicking it will open the folder that the downloaded file is in. This will push the found files that were created recently to the top of the results.

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