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.
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…
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.
In my experience it’s easiest to find things in Linux, next easiest in Windows, and on OSX, good luck with that.
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.
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
Fucking Teams does this and it’s really annoying. Clicking the downloaded notification doesn’t take you to where the file was downloaded.
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
Doesn’t it? I always click on one of those notifications and it opens the download folder for me 🤔
It downloads in downloads folder everytime :P
Android: Photo downloaded
Me: Where did you download it?
Android: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Feels much more true on Android than Windows in my experience.
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
How are the hackers supposed to find it if even you can’t? Exactly. Latest security at its finest
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PowerToys Run or Everything are the Windows search replacement everyone needs.
There’s an Addon for Powertoys Run that integrates Everything and it’s awesome.
Omg I love you, thedoginthewok!
This is the way. Everything is a game changer, couldn’t live without it anymore.
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 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.
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