• @CylonBunny
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    1271 year ago

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

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        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

    • @[email protected]
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      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
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        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I have no idea where the photos came from. All I know was they we’re in there and I couldn’t find where they were stored.

  • @[email protected]
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    801 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!
      • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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        361 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.”

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          You say that like switching to Linux doesn’t require jumping through a bunch of hoops.

          I run both, and Windows is by far the most user friendly (ignoring Apple since they easily win the UI/UX competition). I didn’t have to spend hours getting my gpu to work with Windows or to install on a RAID configuration.

          Linux is great if you want to control your system, but most people don’t want to fuck with it.

          • @[email protected]
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            I didn’t have to spend hours getting my GPU to work on Linux… What were you using exactly, as a distro and as a GPU? Not that I try to invalidate your experience, but afaik, if you have a AMD or Intel GPU, it should work out of the box and if you have an Nvidia GPU, any user friendly Linux distro that is optionally made for gaming have drivers preinstalled and can easily be updated through a GUI or a two words command so that you can directly play as soon as you installed the distro.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I use Linux on my personal devices, but recently had to switch back on my work machine just because everyone else is deeply integrated into the Outlook/Office ecosystem and the mismatch was creating too many headaches.

        • @[email protected]
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          I kind of agree with you but there’s also the issue that when you have a problem with Windows, there are 30 people to tell you, “Here are the hoops, and here’s how to jump through them,” while on Linux there are often only 3-5 people, all telling you, “LOL wipe and replace your whole OS with the distro that I use because I don’t have that specific problem.”

          • Trantarius
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            I think it’s the other way around. I often find only one source (if any) for configuring windows, and it’s some registry edit that hasn’t worked for years. On linux, there will be a dozen people providing multiple ways of getting it done, most of which work.

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              Or is some Microsoft community post where the “experts” just copied and pasted the steps from the top Google result.

      • Subverb
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        111 year ago

        Nice tip, thanks.

  • JokeDeity
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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.

    • wpuckering
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      161 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        41 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.

    • @Droggelbecher
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      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
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        41 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.

    • amio
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      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?

    • Little1Lost
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      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
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          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

          • JokeDeity
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            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.

    • @_cerpin_taxt_
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      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
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        221 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.

        • @_cerpin_taxt_
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          Eh that threw me off when it was new but it’s been a thing for about a decade at this point. My work is all-in on Azure and this has never confused any users as far as I’ve seen, and we’ve got some incredibly ignorant users. Everyone just hits “browse” from that screen and you’re back to the old school save screen.

      • @GeneralEmergency
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        I’ve been seeing that a lot recently. And having been curious before, I never want to touch it.

    • Hogger85b
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      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

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    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
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      221 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        I can’t stand when games do it. Just put the files in a designated folder where the game is installed dammit!

        • ivanafterall
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          I’ll meet you halfway: I created a new folder in the hidden folder %AppData% –> .NameofPublisher –> GameName

          • @[email protected]
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            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.

            • @[email protected]
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              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

            • @[email protected]
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              We’re walking about Windows, here. If 32-bit ever dies on Windows, it will be lovingly stuffed and placed on the mantle like a pet whose owner can’t admit it’s gone.

        • @[email protected]
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          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.

    • Arnaught
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      Hey, some games don’t even bother with the documents folder! They just dump their saves right in your home folder!

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    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!

    • @[email protected]
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      151 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
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      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
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        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.

  • Altima NEO
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    151 year ago

    Pretty sure it saves it to “my documents”

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

    • @[email protected]
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      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
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    Fucking Teams does this and it’s really annoying. Clicking the downloaded notification doesn’t take you to where the file was downloaded.

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

    • @[email protected]
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      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
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        31 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

  • @[email protected]
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    131 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.

    • JackbyDev
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      21 year ago

      What if I: Indexed everything in the background forever

      And said: I don’t know what the fuck file you’re talking about

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

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

    • @Crashumbc
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      It did, but even then you could just open it again. NOT find out where the fuck it was stored…

      • @Blank
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        121 year ago

        Right click > Open file location

        • @PushButton
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          Oh shit, look at that! Saved in Documents in my home directory!

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    How are the hackers supposed to find it if even you can’t? Exactly. Latest security at its finest