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I have limited experience of Android. I appreciate this as it gives me a heads up for my work phone.

I don't understand. On Android I can just open the file manager and "last downloaded object" is at the top of the list no matter where it went, letting me "open file location"

It's a thing on my Fold and I know it was a thing on my Pixel 2 and 3 as well. Maybe just these 2 brands?

Once upon a time windows had absolute pathing. When you saved, it went in the directory you were in out where you told it.

Some time ago windows went to path relative to user. So now when you save to 'desktop' it could be one of several desktop folders. Windows tries to hide this by mapping 'desktop' to your user relative desktop, but it does this at the application level rather than in the base O/S. (Or, it does it on extended file system APIs). Some apps handle it, some apps don't. If you have multiple users on a PC, it's a mess.

I confirm that it's a tool that I use a thousand times every day, it's free and good. Install it right now!

Those meeting invites get deleted but the content should still be on the actual scheduled meeting if you open it from the calendar.

Untick the option in settings

At my school, some people would not accept invites for this reason. Very annoying but less so than being forced to use Microsoft products.

It's all good. I get that the confusing part is really when you save something locally versus saving it in a browser. Like if I am working on a document it will save it in document but I will go to save something on the web and it will put it in Downloads but I will go looking for it in Documents.

I have tried to get better at that by basically just double checking each time.

I miss Outlook. All the google suites are just a bastardised version of a better program. Especially Google sheets, I shouldn't need to Google search to do basic things

I keep a place for everything, and everything in its place. My download folder is cleaned regularly, usually right when I download the file I move it to it’s appropriate place. Sometimes it still fills up with old installers or what have you, if it is a hard to get installer like for old devices, old games, or niche hardware I store it in a safe place on my encrypted cloud, otherwise if it is new software or frequently updated I just delete it after I’m done.

They simplify it so much it becomes less practical.

Yeah. My habit and instinct as someone who understands file trees is to open somewhere like Downloads then use the go up one directory button to home, but windows doesn’t want to do that, it basically acts as a back button in that instance and dumps you back to the recents window.

I feel like I’ll never have the perfect setup because I’m too opinionated to want to deal with windows, and have too many niche games and software that were coded like shit to run well in wine or proton (like Kingdom Hearts 1+2 on PC that switches renderer for video cutscenes and break the compatibility layer. Who wants to play a Disney JRPG without the cutscenes and videos?).

People have always made fun of me for saving everything on my desktop, but at least I always know where shit is.

By "fight with office" do you mean "select the place you want it to go?"

The hell version of Windows are you using?

That's when you go all Office Space on it

If you have the option to sync documents folder with onedrive, its the same one.

If you don’t, I’m assuming the autosave with cloud enabled will save it in a different documents folder inside onedrive folder. This onedrive folder is by default in your user folder, but you should have quick access to it in the list of folder on the left of the explorer window, or by double clicking on the onedrive icon in the taskbar.

The only time it can be tricky to locate these files is when the app closes unexpectedly (for whatever reason), and you have to try to locate the .tmp file in the appdata.

Otherwise, the only chance your file is somewhere else is if you edit an existing file or if you save it in another location by mistake. This is easily solved by checking the latest saved files.

It’s not as tricky as you’re trying to make it out to be

It’s the last folder you saved to if you’re still using the office app after saving the last file, otherwise it will fall back to Documents.

Ctrl+r, start typing the first few letters of the command.

Press Ctrl-R, and you can do an incremental search through your command history. Ctrl-R goes forward through the found entries, and Ctrl-Shift-R goes backwards.

Or, if you use fish like me, it does it automatically.