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This is the way. Everything is a game changer, couldn’t live without it anymore.
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!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.
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.
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.
Android: Photo downloaded
Me: Where did you download it?
Android: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I miss the bot that gives you your arms back when you put that emoji
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.
Android has the worst file system interface I’ve ever seen.
I wonder if there are any third-party os’s that can do better on a jail broken android?
You could install PostmarketOS and then basically use any linux shell of your choosing
There are actually a few of them alongside Postmarket. LineageOS and its various forks, Ubuntu Touch, KDE Plasma Mobile, Graphene, Replicant… the list goes on!
Unfortunately, I was playing around with them a few years ago and Android phones seem to be a POS to try and switch the OS on. But, it’s clearly done. I’m thinking about at least popping one of them onto an older phone or tablet.
Solid Explorer has a “Recent” category on the directory tree. Really handy. Also, if you long-press on a file, you can open the directory the file is saved in.
Downloads? Lol
¯_(ツ)_/¯ if you saved from a third party video editing photo editing apps or else it will save ANYWHERE the app likes
Sometimes AppName/whatever Or Pictures/AppName/ Or DCIM/AppName
Still thats on apps. There are apps in pc too which does that i guess
Does windows not have the concept of “recents” so you can find things you were just messing with easily
It did, but even then you could just open it again. NOT find out where the fuck it was stored…
Right click > Open file location
Oh shit, look at that! Saved in Documents in my home directory!
It may have once, but it was a while back now…
Great title
“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!”
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.
It’s fun with screenshots, you save it and realize, you didn’t check what path it saved to because you (read: me) always puts downloads in the Downloads folder by default. It’s the last place you saved an image, shouldn’t be too hard? Just gotta find an IMG_something either in user photos or documents usually. And then fail to do so, and do a walk of shame back and try save again just to see where it actually ended up…
I do love Everything though, it’s amazing and I constantly use it for looking for things. I know names at least partially, and that does it 99% of the time. Sorting by Path also makes it very easy to navigate when you get a lot of hits. Just a pro-tip to those yet to learn of that power.
I like that with Samsung phones I can at least use a file browser. iPhone a fucking black box though.
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.
What if I: Indexed everything in the background forever
And said: I don’t know what the fuck file you’re talking about
PowerToys has a good search engine too
Fucking Teams does this and it’s really annoying. Clicking the downloaded notification doesn’t take you to where the file was downloaded.
For us it saves it into one drive
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.
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
It downloads in downloads folder everytime :P
Doesn’t it? I always click on one of those notifications and it opens the download folder for me 🤔
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”
I also encounter this frequently on MacOS…
Yeah, Finder is like “what the fuck is a path? Clearly something too technical for the average user.”
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.
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.
Right? What’s with that?
Pretty sure it saves it to “my documents”
That fucking no man’s land. Who actually stores shit there?
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.
Documents folder: obviously where video game files should go…
Documents/games
Or
Documents/My Games
Or
Document/[Game Name]
Or
Gamefolder/Documents/
Why can’t they do that?
Dude fucking iRacing…
Some of them, anyways!
I can’t stand when games do it. Just put the files in a designated folder where the game is installed dammit!
I’ll meet you halfway: I created a new folder in the hidden folder %AppData% –> .NameofPublisher –> GameName
That actually makes sense!
…make it stop…
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.
In C:\Program Files? Or C:\Program Files (x86)?
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.
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.
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
Hey, some games don’t even bother with the documents folder! They just dump their saves right in your home folder!
- 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!
Windows: …
…
What?
LPT: get a debloater to remove One Drive and other MS bullshit.
BC Uninstaller my beloved
LPT: Use Linux
Right, because running one script is way more of a hassle than running Linux.
Point here. Running one script is much easier, and more agreeable to company machines, than installing another OS.
That said, I must quote my hero. “Stop being a little bitch. Use Linux.”
Use F12 instead. Brings up the classic Save As and doesn’t (currently) default to OneDrive.
Nice tip, thanks.
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.”
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Or is some Microsoft community post where the “experts” just copied and pasted the steps from the top Google result.
I wonder if any of those people know what ‘sfc /scannow’ is even supposed to do.
You save my life, thanks!
PowerToys Run or Everything are the Windows search replacement everyone needs.
Seconding Everything. Being able to search for text inside of files has been a godsend.
There’s an Addon for Powertoys Run that integrates Everything and it’s awesome.
Omg I love you, thedoginthewok!
Feels much more true on Android than Windows in my experience.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
