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When the Microsoft AI robot at hospital can’t decide whether to save you or save you as.
There is a hack that Windows users can use. It is called Everything Search. Install it and set your drives to be auto indexed and auto identify changes. Any file saved or modified can be found systemwide this way.
Fsearch exists on Linux if you want this for Linux too.
This method works for people who hate Recent Files bad for their privacy.
With the everything toolbar addon to add a search bar in your toolbar if you want seemless experience.
I just have the Everything Search on the Windows key + 0-9 hotdial, since you can launch one of the first 10 programs on the taskbar that way.
EVERYTHING GOES TO DESKTOP
It’s LINUX TIME!
What command did I run that time?
(200 up presses later)
Aha! Exactly this
Ctrl+r, start typing the first few letters of the command.
TIL, thanks
Please install fzf and save yourself a lifetime of clinical insanity.
Press Ctrl-R, and you can do an incremental search through your command history. Ctrl-R goes forward through the found entries, and Ctrl-Shift-R goes backwards.
Or, if you use fish like me, it does it automatically.
dont need to worry just ask the NSA where your files are
This is my experience with Android, not Windows. Pretty much everything I use in Windows either asks every time or dumps your files in the Downloads folder.
If you use your eyes and brain to pay attention to where you save things this becomes a complete non-issue on virtually every OS.
Congratulations, you’ve defeated this meme!
Your plaque and bronze statuette will be mailed with great haste as soon as I can figure out where my shipping manifest got saved to.
Android is even worse, it’s like if a Linux file system was constantly about to die but was kept alive by increasingly worse means
appdata go brrrrrrrt
I hate this meme. It’s downloads/documents or wherever you saved the document the first time. And you chose that location.
K
It’s downloads/documents
Lies, it’s always Sharepoint or OneDrive, you have to fight with Office if you want to save it locally. And it’s been like this for the past 10 years.
By “fight with office” do you mean “select the place you want it to go?”
The hell version of Windows are you using?
Windows 13. “Lucky for some!”
The worst is when it saves to your porn folder because that’s where you last saved something
Windows is the only operating system I’ve used that I’ve never had this problem with before.
Download everything from voidtools for windows.
You’re welcome, enjoy the best search ever.
The one that bugs me is that they don’t have a “Home” link by default on the explorer sidebar. When I first install windows I add it, but when I have to help someone else for some reason and have to go to the home directory the easiest way to do it is to go through “This PC”>C:>Users>[Name] then try to find what they are looking for. Why not just open that location at default instead of the nebulous “everything you’ve ever used or interacted with”? Half the time it’s full of garbage or one off files they have no interest in reviewing but are too afraid to delete.
Better yet, why not auto sort web downloads based on file extensions to their relevant home folder? I had that setup on a Linux box for a minute and I legit miss it.
How does everyone sort their files anyway? I remember a few years ago it used to be really easy to find the newest Download file but now it seems like for no rhyme or reason some files go to the bottom of my folder (but not the VERY bottom!) and I’m stuck there sucking my thumb wondering if I actually downloaded it or not. I try setting it to “last updated/last modified” but that makes it just as confusing with different file extensions.
I keep a place for everything, and everything in its place. My download folder is cleaned regularly, usually right when I download the file I move it to it’s appropriate place. Sometimes it still fills up with old installers or what have you, if it is a hard to get installer like for old devices, old games, or niche hardware I store it in a safe place on my encrypted cloud, otherwise if it is new software or frequently updated I just delete it after I’m done.
The thing that bugs me is how the sidebar is basically gimped by default. A couple tick boxes in the Folder Options and it will always open to the folder you’re in, then you can jump through the tree of folders without just going up and down branches. They simplify it so much that it becomes less practical.
They simplify it so much it becomes less practical.
Yeah. My habit and instinct as someone who understands file trees is to open somewhere like Downloads then use the go up one directory button to home, but windows doesn’t want to do that, it basically acts as a back button in that instance and dumps you back to the recents window.
I feel like I’ll never have the perfect setup because I’m too opinionated to want to deal with windows, and have too many niche games and software that were coded like shit to run well in wine or proton (like Kingdom Hearts 1+2 on PC that switches renderer for video cutscenes and break the compatibility layer. Who wants to play a Disney JRPG without the cutscenes and videos?).
Now we get the one drive bullshit that means your desktop can be in multiple locations
