I've been trying to gradually eliminate one by one Opera files deleted by CCleaner in an effort to isolate and for now, "exclude", the relevant file being "cleaned", and in the process I discovered something I've never even noticed before.
For me Opera has always returned to the "last used" download location until a run of CCleaner sets that to the "My Documents" folder, which is the problem we're talking about.
However, in reality CCleaner never changes the user defined download folder. It remains the same after running the latest CCleaner with everything checked. (Not including "saved passwords" in that statement of course).
It all depends which right click menu item you use to do the saving.
Depending upon what it is you are saving, there are always a couple of save options to choose from, and one of them always saves directly to the download folder, and this is the only save option controlled by that user defined setting.
The green highlighted option always goes to the user defined download folder, and isn't affected by CCleaner. The other two unfortunately are affected by running CCleaner.
Also unfortunately, it isn't always possible to use the "Save to Download Folder" option.
This doesn't change the fact that CCleaner is wiping out the "last used" download location, but just to be accurate and to save looking for a problem which doesn't exist, it isn't wiping out the user defined one.
So if possible, always choose the "Save to Download Folder" option until the other save options are excluded from being cleaned.
Just to illustrate in a different way how this "Save to Download Folder" location never changes, I went through the process of downloading CCleaner. As soon as I clicked "download" and "save", the download window opened to "My Documents":
However, when I selected "cancel" and then right clicked on the download button and chose "Save to Download Folder", it went straight to my chosen location:
Hope that helps. For now.
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