- 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!
data secured
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glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Okalaydokalay@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Use F12 instead. Brings up the classic Save As and doesn’t (currently) default to OneDrive.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s amazing the hoops people will jump through to deal with Windows’ bullshit but the moment Linux presents the slightest obstacle they write it off as “too hard to use.”
Subverb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nice tip, thanks.
glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
You save my life, thanks!
thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
LPT: get a debloater to remove One Drive and other MS bullshit.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 1 year ago
BC Uninstaller my beloved
ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev 1 year ago
Windows: …
…
What?
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 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.
wpuckering@lm.williampuckering.com 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.
abir_vandergriff@beehaw.org 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…
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 year 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.
_cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
bernadetteee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’d probably experience it if you were in a OneDrive/sharepoint/teams bla bla bla shop. The AutoSave defaults to On, the default destination is (I think?) the user home folder in OneDrive, and the default Save As does not pop up the system dialog, only your Recents. I feel this meme for sure and I’m a 25-year IT professional. It’s just poorly built user interaction, that someone in the bowels of M$oft thought would be “easier” but it took away most of the visibility and control from the user.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been seeing that a lot recently. And having been curious before, I never want to touch it.
amio@kbin.social 1 year 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?
QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 year ago
git: 'gud' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
isosphere@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Office is weird about it because of their OneDrive product
fidodo@lemm.ee 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.
zerofk@lemm.ee 1 year 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.
worfamerryman@beehaw.org 1 year 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.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s easy to call oneself tech savvy when they can Google a tutorial and dig
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
What’s different for you? I’ve used Ubuntu and Raspbian before and it all seemed about the same as Windows to me.
Little8Lost@feddit.de 1 year 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
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m having trouble understanding your sentence.
Hogger85b@kbin.social 1 year 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 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 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 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.
marco@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I also encounter this frequently on MacOS…
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
Yeah, Finder is like “what the fuck is a path? Clearly something too technical for the average user.”
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Documents folder: obviously where video game files should go…
ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 year ago
Some of them, anyways!
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 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!
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Documents/games
Or
Documents/My Games
Or
Document/[Game Name]
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Or
Gamefolder/Documents/
Why can’t they do that?
neocamel@lemmy.studio 1 year ago
Dude fucking iRacing…
Arnaught@kbin.social 1 year ago
Hey, some games don't even bother with the documents folder! They just dump their saves right in your home folder!
Arnaught@kbin.social 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) I doesn't has an option to view the full path of the picture you're viewing or open the folder it's in!null_recurrent@midwest.social 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.
eduardobragaxz@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
Arnaught@kbin.social 1 year ago
Oh, looking at the Windows 11 Photos app real quick, I see the path is shown under the file info tab at the top. That's nice! I don't think this was shown anywhere in the Windows 10 version, but again, it's been a while since I've checked.
PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Android: Photo downloaded Me: Where did you download it? Android: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Psythik@lemm.ee 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.
ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev 1 year ago
Android has the worst file system interface I’ve ever seen.
Scrithwire@lemmy.one 1 year ago
I miss the bot that gives you your arms back when you put that emoji
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Downloads? Lol
covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
¯_(ツ)_/¯ if you saved from a third party video editing photo editing apps or else it will save ANYWHERE the app likes
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Pretty sure it saves it to “my documents”
That fucking no man’s land. Who actually stores shit there?
Zink@programming.dev 1 year ago
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.
tibi@lemmy.world 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 1 year ago
It downloads in downloads folder everytime :P
sfgifz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Doesn’t it? I always click on one of those notifications and it opens the download folder for me 🤔
BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 1 year 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.dev 1 year 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
fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
PowerToys Run or Everything are the Windows search replacement everyone needs.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 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.
TehPers@beehaw.org 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.
HamBrick@programming.dev 1 year ago
How are the hackers supposed to find it if even you can’t? Exactly. Latest security at its finest
atyaz@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Does windows not have the concept of “recents” so you can find things you were just messing with easily
ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev 1 year ago
“You have so many gigabytes on that disk, and so many different folders… it seems kind of selfish and draconian to insist on just one!”
Surp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
pozbo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Great title
leggettc18@programming.dev 1 year ago
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.
CylonBunny@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Feels much more true on Android than Windows in my experience.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 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 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 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.
Matt_Shatt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not sure I follow. The photos app doesn’t save anything externally unless you specifically export it to files and then you have to tell it where. Adding photos from your library to albums is one step with no question where they go. I’ve had a way worse time on android trying to figure out where it stashed things. But sounds like it could just be lack of familiarity for us both.