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[-] CylonBunny@lemmy.world 125 points 1 year ago

Feels much more true on Android than Windows in my experience.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Happened to me a moment ago.

Saved images goes into images.

Downloads goes into downloads.

Screenshots go into download/screenshots ?

Gifs go into downloads?

Fuck this noise just put everything into "stuff" folder.

[-] brb@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Idk what rom you are using but for me everything seems to be logical

Saved images go to downloads

Downloads go to downloads

Screenshots go to pictures/screenshots

Gifs go to downloads

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

IMO it's by far the worst on any apple product. I tried to help my mom organize some photos and it drove me absolutely fucking insane trying to figure out where the photos app stored things.

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[-] glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 88 points 1 year 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!

[-] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 1 year ago

LPT: get a debloater to remove One Drive and other MS bullshit.

[-] Vishram1123@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

LPT: Use Linux

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[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

BC Uninstaller my beloved

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 56 points 1 year 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 19 points 1 year 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...

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[-] wpuckering@lm.williampuckering.com 17 points 1 year 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.

[-] isosphere@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Office is weird about it because of their OneDrive product

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 45 points 1 year 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 22 points 1 year 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.uk 12 points 1 year 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.

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[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

Documents folder: obviously where video game files should go...

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Some of them, anyways!

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

I can't stand when games do it. Just put the files in a designated folder where the game is installed dammit!

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll meet you halfway: I created a new folder in the hidden folder %AppData% --> .NameofPublisher --> GameName

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

...make it stop...

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[-] Jerkface@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

In C:\Program Files? Or C:\Program Files (x86)?

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[-] NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Documents/games

Documents/My Games

Document/[Game Name]

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[-] PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Android: Photo downloaded

Me: Where did you download it?

Android: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year 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.

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[-] Scrithwire@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

I miss the bot that gives you your arms back when you put that emoji

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[-] Arnaught@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.social 16 points 1 year 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.

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[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it saves it to "my documents"

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

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[-] tibi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] rony4102@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

It downloads in downloads folder everytime :P

[-] sfgifz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

PowerToys Run or Everything are the Windows search replacement everyone needs.

[-] JBloodthorn@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Seconding Everything. Being able to search for text inside of files has been a godsend.

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year 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.

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[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year 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.