• glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org
    6·
    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!
  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    Pretty sure it saves it to “my documents”

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

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
    5·
    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.

    • fidodo@lemm.ee
      2·
      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
        1·
        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.

    • wpuckering@lm.williampuckering.comEnglish
      2·
      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.

    • abir_vandergriff@beehaw.org
      1·
      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
        1·
        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.

    • amio@kbin.social
      0·
      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?

  • Arnaught@kbin.social
    3·
    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
      3·
      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.

  • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
    3·
    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”

  • leggettc18@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    11 months 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.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    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.