• glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org
    5·
    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!
  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
    3·
    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.

    • wpuckering@lm.williampuckering.comEnglish
      1·
      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.

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Pretty sure it saves it to “my documents”

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

  • Arnaught@kbin.social
    1·
    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!

  • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
    1·
    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”

  • 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.