• glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org
    797·
    11 months ago
    • 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!
  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
    548·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • abir_vandergriff@beehaw.org
      15·
      11 months ago

      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…

      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
        4·
        11 months ago

        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.

    • wpuckering@lm.williampuckering.comEnglish
      163·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • fidodo@lemm.ee
      73·
      11 months ago

      In my experience it’s easiest to find things in Linux, next easiest in Windows, and on OSX, good luck with that.

      • zerofk@lemm.ee
        3·
        11 months ago

        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.

    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 months ago

      It’s not that we literally can’t find it, it’s just that it seems needlessly annoying on windows/ios/android after you get used to Linux

      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
        3·
        11 months ago

        What’s different for you? I’ve used Ubuntu and Raspbian before and it all seemed about the same as Windows to me.

    • amio@kbin.social
      85·
      11 months ago

      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?

    • worfamerryman@beehaw.org
      41·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • Little1Lost@feddit.de
      21·
      11 months ago

      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

        • Little1Lost@feddit.de
          1·
          11 months ago

          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

    • _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world
      1212·
      11 months ago

      Right? Seems like Linux fanboy propaganda. If you don’t know where your file saves to, you’re probably incompetent and shouldn’t be near a computer. Even the most incompetent of users in my 15 year IT career know how to save something and where it’s saving to.

    • Hogger85b@kbin.social
      13·
      11 months ago

      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

  • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
    40·
    11 months ago

    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”

    • sfgifz@lemmy.world
      17·
      11 months ago

      Save an image - it’s either in Downloads or inside some folder in DCIM or Pictures or some random folder in root - or if you’re super lucky - inside some random folder in the app’s data directory.

      • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
        9·
        11 months ago

        The DCIM folder always seems so odd to me. It’s a modern, mobile OS pretending to be a Fujitsu point-and-shoot digital camera from 2004.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, Finder is like “what the fuck is a path? Clearly something too technical for the average user.”

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
      16·
      11 months ago

      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.

          • Lil' Bobby Tables@programming.dev
            2·
            11 months ago

            There are actually a few of them alongside Postmarket. LineageOS and its various forks, Ubuntu Touch, KDE Plasma Mobile, Graphene, Replicant… the list goes on!

            Unfortunately, I was playing around with them a few years ago and Android phones seem to be a POS to try and switch the OS on. But, it’s clearly done. I’m thinking about at least popping one of them onto an older phone or tablet.

      • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
        1·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          0·
          11 months ago

          Sometimes AppName/whatever Or Pictures/AppName/ Or DCIM/AppName

          Still thats on apps. There are apps in pc too which does that i guess

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    Pretty sure it saves it to “my documents”

    That fucking no man’s land. Who actually stores shit there?

  • Arnaught@kbin.social
    14·
    11 months ago

    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!

    • null_recurrent@midwest.socialEnglish
      91·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • eduardobragaxz@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      You can both see the path and open the folder it’s in with the photos app.

      I’m not sure what scan app you’re using, but there’s a Windows 8 era one that hasn’t been updated since, so maybe not the best.

  • tibi@lemmy.world
    14·
    11 months ago

    Fucking Teams does this and it’s really annoying. Clicking the downloaded notification doesn’t take you to where the file was downloaded.

    • sfgifz@lemmy.world
      51·
      11 months ago

      Doesn’t it? I always click on one of those notifications and it opens the download folder for me 🤔

    • BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev
      2·
      11 months ago

      How about clicking a document link, and they fucking put Word as a tab inside Teams, just so Teams can be even more bloated and make viewing documents a pain. Teams have come a long way from when I started my job, now it’s not a dysfunctional mess, but things like that still annoy me.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        When you change your password for something and the Gmail app takes you to the internal browser and 1password doesn’t recognize the password field so you switch to 1password but when you come back to Gmail the internal browser window is gone

  • TehPers@beehaw.org
    12·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I like that with Samsung phones I can at least use a file browser. iPhone a fucking black box though.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    11 months ago

    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.

  • atyaz@reddthat.com
    8·
    11 months ago

    Does windows not have the concept of “recents” so you can find things you were just messing with easily