Drush doesn't pick up on modules it downloaded in 8.x

[brianV]

drush dl downloads the project to the correct folder in d8, but drush en doesn't find it.

brian@brian-MS-7599:~/Workspace/drupal$ drush dl devel 
Project devel (8.x-1.x-dev) downloaded to modules/devel. [success] 
Project devel contains 3 modules: devel_generate, devel_node_access, devel.   
brian@brian-MS-7599:~/Workspace/drupal$ drush en devel
devel was not found. [warning] 
The following projects provide some or all of the extensions not found: [ok] 
devel 
Would you like to download them? (y/n): y 
Install location modules/devel already exists. Do you want to overwrite it? (y/n): y 
Project devel (8.x-1.x-dev) downloaded to modules/devel. [success] 
Project devel contains 3 modules: devel_generate, devel_node_access, devel. devel was not found. [warning] 
The following projects provide some or all of the extensions not found: [ok] devel     
Would you like to download them? (y/n): 

[mgifford]

Why is it getting downloaded to modules/devel ?

I ran into this problem too. I then created sites/default/modules and Drush downloaded it there.

I also created sites/all/modules/contrib but even when installing from sites/all the module was installed in sites/default/modules

The change is a bit confusing.

[weitzman]

I can say that the expected behavior in D8 is to default to /modules as sites/all is deprecated.

Sounds like there is a bug here though.

[seanr]

This bug still stands, I think, but in my case it's downloading it to ~/.drush/, not the modules folder like it should.

[bradjones1]

I can vouch for the original bug report. Drush will download the module (or, in my case, theme) to the proper directory in the present install, however when it goes to enable the module it doesn't discover the just-downloaded files. If you ctrl-C out of the operation and then do a drush en -y just-downloaded, it works as expected.

[jonhattan]

@bradjones1 It seems you're suffering #5. The issues reported in the other comments above are already fixed.