By "does not offer me a directory option", do you mean that the download options dialog does not show and the download instead starts straight away to the implicit local folder?

You might have suppressed the dialog. Undo it:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_copy#suppress

If you have meant something else, please explain.

Hi,
I have been using WinSCP for four years now, but for some reason today it denied me access to my local machine. When I click on the download on the GUI it does not offer me a directory option, it automatically wants to download it to my c:\.
Could you please help with this issue?

Thank you in advance.
BR,
Zsolt