• fidodo@lemm.ee
      29·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Matt Shatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • fidodo@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

  • glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org
    858·
    1 year 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!
      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
        412·
        1 year ago

        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.”

        • Redkey@programming.dev
          14·
          1 year ago

          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.”

          • Trantarius@programming.dev
            9·
            1 year ago

            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.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
    6410·
    1 year 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
      203·
      1 year 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
      16·
      1 year 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
        5·
        1 year 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
      126·
      1 year 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?

    • fidodo@lemm.ee
      93·
      1 year 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
        4·
        1 year 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.

    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      It’s not that we literally can’t find it, it’s just that it seems needlessly annoying on windows/ios/android after you get used to Linux

      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
        4·
        1 year ago

        What’s different for you? I’ve used Ubuntu and Raspbian before and it all seemed about the same as Windows to me.

    • _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world
      1512·
      1 year ago

      Right? Seems like Linux fanboy propaganda. If you don’t know where your file saves to, you’re probably incompetent and shouldn’t be near a computer. Even the most incompetent of users in my 15 year IT career know how to save something and where it’s saving to.

      • bernadetteee@lemmy.world
        182·
        1 year ago

        You’d probably experience it if you were in a OneDrive/sharepoint/teams bla bla bla shop. The AutoSave defaults to On, the default destination is (I think?) the user home folder in OneDrive, and the default Save As does not pop up the system dialog, only your Recents. I feel this meme for sure and I’m a 25-year IT professional. It’s just poorly built user interaction, that someone in the bowels of M$oft thought would be “easier” but it took away most of the visibility and control from the user.

    • Little1Lost@feddit.de
      31·
      1 year ago

      sometimes i am not sure when like paint that saved the filepath for the pic that was made a few months before. In that case i use save as again to look where it should have put my file and copy the path

        • Little1Lost@feddit.de
          0·
          1 year ago

          MS paint saves stuff to the last given location.

          When i save something without remembering the location i try to save my file again, so it gives me a explorer pop up so i see the location again

          • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
            2·
            1 year ago

            Odd, I just tested this and clicking save brought up a window for me, it was not automatically to the last location, and I use the program at least once a month so it’s not my first time running it or anything.

    • worfamerryman@beehaw.org
      31·
      1 year ago

      Windows seems to have irregular behavior in this regard. It usually defaults to the downloads folder. But sometimes it defaults to the last folder I saved a file to.

      It might just be windows being buggy or something, but there were a number of time where I hit save and then the file is not where I expected it to be.

      I could have prevented the mistake by paying attention first, but windows could also be consistent.

    • Hogger85b@kbin.social
      24·
      1 year ago

      Yep it’s just click top.toolbar see the breadcrumbs…it used to be a problem 15years ago and I still.question the name it uses when I open a file from outlook (why not downloads) but is pretty easy to find again

  • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
    441·
    1 year 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”

    • sfgifz@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Arnaught@kbin.social
    18·
    1 year 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
      13·
      1 year 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.

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Pretty sure it saves it to “my documents”

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

    • Zink@programming.dev
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • tibi@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 year ago

    Fucking Teams does this and it’s really annoying. Clicking the downloaded notification doesn’t take you to where the file was downloaded.

    • sfgifz@lemmy.world
      71·
      1 year ago

      Doesn’t it? I always click on one of those notifications and it opens the download folder for me 🤔

    • BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    1 year 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.

  • TehPers@beehaw.org
    11·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I like that with Samsung phones I can at least use a file browser. iPhone a fucking black box though.

    • BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • atyaz@reddthat.com
    9·
    1 year ago

    Does windows not have the concept of “recents” so you can find things you were just messing with easily