- Me: Ctrl+S, please save this file
- Windows: Do you want to save it on SharepointOnedriveCloudthing?
- Me: Put it in the local Downloads folder FFS
- Windows: OMG it’s too hard!
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You save my life, thanks!
LPT: get a debloater to remove One Drive and other MS bullshit.
LPT: Use Linux
Right, because running one script is way more of a hassle than running Linux.
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I keep seeing this sentiment from people who are supposedly savvy with computers. I never have to question where a file was saved to on Windows and I’m not sure why you guys do.
I’ve questioned it before when I just didn’t watch where it went, but it usually takes just a few seconds to figure it out most of the time.
Now Android on the other hand…
Here fucking here. I never don’t have a hard time figuring out where a saved file went on my phone. And every app seems to have it’s own idea of where the best place to put downloaded files should be.
Office is weird about it because of their OneDrive product
Same here, I’ve never had this problem, ever. I don’t even get how it’s possible to not know where your files are being saved if you are the least bit techsavvy.
Garden variety low effort meme. haha windows (or windass or windowns or whatever) bad so funiiii lolololololo etc - a few linuxmemes are basically… this.
Not sure what it does in programmer humor though - if you, as a programmer, find yourself in this situation… just git gud?
git: 'gud' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.pip install good
In my experience it’s easiest to find things in Linux, next easiest in Windows, and on OSX, good luck with that.
One of the very very very few good features of macOS: cmd-click the title bar of a document window to pop up a window with the document location.
It does not work on Microsoft’s products on macOS though.
Windows seems to have irregular behavior in this regard. It usually defaults to the downloads folder. But sometimes it defaults to the last folder I saved a file to.
It might just be windows being buggy or something, but there were a number of time where I hit save and then the file is not where I expected it to be.
I could have prevented the mistake by paying attention first, but windows could also be consistent.
sometimes i am not sure when like paint that saved the filepath for the pic that was made a few months before. In that case i use save as again to look where it should have put my file and copy the path
I’m having trouble understanding your sentence.
MS paint saves stuff to the last given location.
When i save something without remembering the location i try to save my file again, so it gives me a explorer pop up so i see the location again
Odd, I just tested this and clicking save brought up a window for me, it was not automatically to the last location, and I use the program at least once a month so it’s not my first time running it or anything.
Yep it’s just click top.toolbar see the breadcrumbs…it used to be a problem 15years ago and I still.question the name it uses when I open a file from outlook (why not downloads) but is pretty easy to find again
I feel like that’s worse on android and ios. The former it’s like “I saved it somewhere in this byzantine folder structure!” and in ios it’s like “Fuck you we don’t talk about folder structure”
I also encounter this frequently on MacOS…
Yeah, Finder is like “what the fuck is a path? Clearly something too technical for the average user.”
Documents folder: obviously where video game files should go…
Some of them, anyways!
I can’t stand when games do it. Just put the files in a designated folder where the game is installed dammit!
I’ll meet you halfway: I created a new folder in the hidden folder %AppData% –> .NameofPublisher –> GameName
…make it stop…
That actually makes sense!
In C:\Program Files? Or C:\Program Files (x86)?
C:\Program Files\ unless your program is 20+ years old and you still haven’t written a version for modern-day systems. 32-bit is dead.
Let’s take a look at the old ssd…
C:\Program Files (x86)\Epic Games
C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy
C:\Program Files (x86)\Hearthstone
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\etcetera
Please don’t mix executables and data created by applications, even if the application happens to be a game. Those are supposed to be separate. That being said, “Documents” is obviously the wrong place for save game files.
Hey, some games don’t even bother with the documents folder! They just dump their saves right in your home folder!
Dude fucking iRacing…
Android: Photo downloaded
Me: Where did you download it?
Android: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah seriously, Android is way worse at this. At least Windows has the option to ask you where you want to save the file to first.
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I wonder if there are any third-party os’s that can do better on a jail broken android?
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You could install PostmarketOS and then basically use any linux shell of your choosing
Solid Explorer has a “Recent” category on the directory tree. Really handy. Also, if you long-press on a file, you can open the directory the file is saved in.
I miss the bot that gives you your arms back when you put that emoji
Downloads? Lol
¯_(ツ)_/¯ if you saved from a third party video editing photo editing apps or else it will save ANYWHERE the app likes
Sometimes AppName/whatever Or Pictures/AppName/ Or DCIM/AppName
Still thats on apps. There are apps in pc too which does that i guess
Pretty sure it saves it to “my documents”
That fucking no man’s land. Who actually stores shit there?
I’ve started doing that at work, since the documents folder is one of the handful automatically backed up to MS onedrive.
At home the documents folder is on a network share and backed up from that little server.
The Windows Scan app is particularly bad at this. When you scan a document, it saves the scan as a PNG in
Pictures\Scans. This is a sensible place to save scans by default, but it doesn’t tell you where. It just says it was saved. There’s a button to view it, but this just opens the scan in the Windows Photos app, which (at least, last I checked) doesn’t have an option to view the full path of the picture you’re viewing or open the folder it’s in!They want you to access everything through search and recently accessed because its so intuitive. It’s like they want computers to be as hard to use as possible for people who need to do actual work on many projects in any sort of organized way.
Also, now that IT has integrated everything with OneDrive, I routinely have to wait for my own files to be redownloaded before accessing them.
At least there’s Windows Search to bring your system to its knees by indexing everything constantly in the background, only to be both terribly slow and unable to find anything at all when you actually need it.
I depend on Voidtools’ Everything search, which actually finds stuff.
PowerToys has a good search engine too
What if I: Indexed everything in the background forever
And said: I don’t know what the fuck file you’re talking about
I’ve never had this issue on Windows, but I have on mobile many times. The more a platform tries to hide the FS from me, the more I struggle to navigate it (surprise!). Mobile devices have been moving to be more transparent that a FS exists at least in recent times.
Casual plug for Search Everything, not FOSS but still free. It’s an alternate indexer/search for Windows, but way faster.
I like that with Samsung phones I can at least use a file browser. iPhone a fucking black box though.
It’s fun with screenshots, you save it and realize, you didn’t check what path it saved to because you (read: me) always puts downloads in the Downloads folder by default. It’s the last place you saved an image, shouldn’t be too hard? Just gotta find an IMG_something either in user photos or documents usually. And then fail to do so, and do a walk of shame back and try save again just to see where it actually ended up…
I do love Everything though, it’s amazing and I constantly use it for looking for things. I know names at least partially, and that does it 99% of the time. Sorting by Path also makes it very easy to navigate when you get a lot of hits. Just a pro-tip to those yet to learn of that power.
How are the hackers supposed to find it if even you can’t? Exactly. Latest security at its finest
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Does windows not have the concept of “recents” so you can find things you were just messing with easily
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I mean, I hate Windows as much as the next guy, but the Recent Files list can help pick up the slack here. Also Windows typically saves new files to appropriate places and saves edits to existing files in the same place you opened the file at. Not knowing where a file is has never really been a problem I’ve had with Windows. If I have it’s usually been because an individual 3rd party app did something weird.
