Default download folder disappeared?

If you'd like, read what I ask before posting a general answer. I am an MCP, I am comfortable with Windows, but it had to search me for two days now and I'm at my wits end. Thank you.

Would someone kindly tell me how to recover the real default download folder?
I know I can just create a new folder and call it download but not what I'm looking for. If you look at your own default download folder, if you go to properties, you will see FIVE tabs appointed general, sharing, security, location and customization. This is the case, I'm recovering. (Same as your folders my pictures or my videos.)
Do you have any idea? Thank you in advance. It is so frustrating and I don't want to do yet another restore and reinstall everything from scratch. Since it 4 times already for other reasons I bought this Windows 8 in December and it's just not a good time for this at the moment.

Hello again everyone. I didn't leave this "case" open and I wanted to share what I found out. It is more simple that none of us thought.

When I did my old default folder to a new location on an external hard drive (using the tab location, we talked about earlier) it changes the structure of the files of the folder left in the old directory. This is why I didn't see the location tab.
When I went to my external hard drive (g) there was my default folder. Actually a little bit because I had done that to my music, My Documents, my videos. You get the point. So if I right click on the folder THERE, then I get the location tab so I could bring it back to C:\ or elsewhere.
Let me know if you understand. I can get some screenshots if necessary. Just in case someone else runs into the same problem at a later date.

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