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title: "Downloads, history and bookmarks"
description: "Find and manage your downloads, search and clear your browsing history, and save and organize your bookmarks in Lilo on your Mac."
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This guide shows you how to find and manage what you downloaded, search and delete your history, and keep the pages you come back to as bookmarks. Each profile keeps its own downloads list, history and bookmarks, on your Mac only.

## Find and manage your downloads

1. **Open Downloads**

    Press <kbd>⌥⌘L</kbd>, or choose **Window > Downloads**. In the command bar, the action is **Show Downloads**. For a quick look at the last ones, choose **Window > Recent Downloads**.

2. **Find a file**

    Downloads are grouped as **Active**, **Today**, **Yesterday** and older days. Type in **Search downloads** to narrow the list.

3. **Act on a download**

    Double-click a finished download to open it, or drag its icon to the Finder or another app. Right-click it, or click its **More actions** button, for **Open**, **Quick Look**, **Show in Finder**, **Open in Terminal** (while [terminal tabs](/guides/terminal) are on), **Copy URL**, **Delete File** and **Remove from List**.

A download in progress can be paused and resumed from its row, or canceled from its menu. If a download fails, its row says why, and **Retry** starts it again when the server allows it. Lilo also retries by itself a few times when the network drops.

The **More actions** menu at the top of the Downloads page has **Show Downloads Folder** and **Clear Finished Downloads**. Clearing the list leaves the files where they are. In **Window > Recent Downloads**, hold Option to show a file in the Finder instead of opening it.

### Choose where files go

In **Settings > General**, under **Downloads**:

- **Downloads folder** is where files are saved. It is your Mac's Downloads folder until you pick another.
- **Ask where to save each file** lets you choose a folder and a name for every download. Off by default.

Lilo marks every downloaded file with the macOS quarantine flag, so macOS checks it the first time you open it. Before opening a downloaded app or script that is still quarantined, Lilo asks you to confirm. If you quit while files are downloading, Lilo asks first, and pauses them until it opens again.

## Search and clear your history

1. **Open History**

    Press <kbd>⌘Y</kbd>, or choose **History > Show All History…**. The last pages you visited are also in **History > Recently Visited**.

2. **Browse by period or site**

    Choose **All History**, **Today**, **Yesterday**, **Last 7 Days** or **Older**. Under **Most Visited Sites**, choose a site to see only its pages. **From Terminals** lists the pages opened from links in a [terminal tab](/guides/terminal).

3. **Search**

    Type in **Search History**. It searches the titles and addresses of the pages you visited.

4. **Open a page**

    Click a row to open it. Command-click opens it in a new tab.

To see the history of the site a tab shows, right-click the tab and choose **Show History for example.com**. The [command bar](/guides/command-bar) also finds pages from your history as you type.

### Delete history

- **One page**: click the **Delete** button on its row, or move the focus to the row and press Delete.
- **Several pages**: select them with their checkboxes, or Shift-click them, then click **Delete** in the bar that appears. **Open in New Tabs** opens them all instead.
- **Everything from one site**: right-click one of its pages and choose **Delete All from example.com…**, then confirm. Every visit to the site goes, whatever period or search is shown.
- **A time range**: click **Clear Browsing Data...** in the History sidebar, or press <kbd>⇧⌘⌫</kbd>. See [Clear your browsing data](/guides/privacy-controls#clear-your-browsing-data).

Lilo records no visits in a [Private Space](/guides/privacy-controls#browse-privately), nor in a locked folder. History keeps the 50,000 most recently visited pages and their last 250,000 visits; older entries are removed as new ones come in.

## Keep bookmarks

In Lilo, a bookmark is a tab that stays in your sidebar. Each Space has its own bookmarked tabs, in their own section of the sidebar.

1. **Bookmark a page**

    Choose **Tab > Bookmark This Page**, right-click the page or its tab and choose **Bookmark This Page** or **Bookmark Tab**, or drag the tab into the bookmarks section. In the command bar, the action is **Bookmark Page**.

2. **Open it later**

    Click the bookmark in the sidebar. You can also type its name in the command bar.

3. **Remove it**

    Right-click the bookmark and choose **Remove Bookmark** (or **Unbookmark Tab**). A bookmark whose page is open stays as an ordinary tab; one that isn't open leaves the sidebar. **History > Reopen Last Closed Tab** brings it back.

Bookmarked tabs stay when you use **Close Other Tabs** or **Clear Unpinned Tabs**, and they can't be moved into a Private Space. To bring in the bookmarks of another browser, see [Import from another browser](/start/import). For folders, pinned tabs and moving tabs between Spaces, see [Tabs and folders](/guides/tabs-and-folders).