data secured

Feels much more true on Android than Windows in my experience.

• 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!

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 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"

Documents folder: obviously where video game files should go...

Android: Photo downloaded

Me: Where did you download it?

Android: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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!

Pretty sure it saves it to "my documents"

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

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

PowerToys Run or Everything are the Windows search replacement everyone needs.

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.

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.

How are the hackers supposed to find it if even you can’t? Exactly. Latest security at its finest

https://www.voidtools.com/

Download everything search.

You're welcome 🤗

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

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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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