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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
- 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.
  
  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.

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!
- LPT: get a debloater to remove One Drive and other MS bullshit.
  
  LPT: Use Linux
  
  BC Uninstaller my beloved

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.
- 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.
- Office is weird about it because of their OneDrive product
- 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.
- 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?
  
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  git: 'gud' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
- 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
  
  What's different for you? I've used Ubuntu and Raspbian before and it all seemed about the same as Windows to me.
- It's easy to call oneself tech savvy when they can Google a tutorial
- 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.
- 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
  
  I'm having trouble understanding your sentence.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  I've been seeing that a lot recently. And having been curious before, I never want to touch it.
- 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

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"
- 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.
  
  The DCIM folder always seems so odd to me. It's a modern, mobile OS pretending to be a Fujitsu point-and-shoot digital camera from 2004.
- I also encounter this frequently on MacOS...
  
  Yeah, Finder is like "what the fuck is a path? Clearly something too technical for the average user."

Documents folder: obviously where video game files should go...
- Some of them, anyways!
  
  I can't stand when games do it. Just put the files in a designated folder where the game is installed dammit!
- Documents/games
  Or
  Documents/My Games
  Or
  Document/[Game Name]
  
  Or
  Gamefolder/Documents/
  Why can't they do that?
- Dude fucking iRacing...
- Hey, some games don't even bother with the documents folder! They just dump their saves right in your home folder!

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!
- 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.
- You can both see the path and open the folder it's in with the photos app.
  I'm not sure what scan app you're using, but there's a Windows 8 era one that hasn't been updated since, so maybe not the best.
  
  Oh, looking at the Windows 11 Photos app real quick, I see the path is shown under the file info tab at the top. That's nice! I don't think this was shown anywhere in the Windows 10 version, but again, it's been a while since I've checked.

Android: Photo downloaded
Me: Where did you download it?
Android: ¯(ツ)_/¯
- Yeah seriously, Android is way worse at this. At least Windows has the option to ask you where you want to save the file to first.
  
  Solid Explorer has a "Recent" category on the directory tree. Really handy. Also, if you long-press on a file, you can open the directory the file is saved in.
- I miss the bot that gives you your arms back when you put that emoji
- Downloads? Lol
  
  ¯(ツ)_/¯ if you saved from a third party video editing photo editing apps or else it will save ANYWHERE the app likes

Pretty sure it saves it to "my documents"
That fucking no man's land. Who actually stores shit there?
- 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.

Fucking Teams does this and it's really annoying. Clicking the downloaded notification doesn't take you to where the file was downloaded.
- It downloads in downloads folder everytime :P
- Doesn't it? I always click on one of those notifications and it opens the download folder for me 🤔
- 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
- For us it saves it into one drive

PowerToys Run or Everything are the Windows search replacement everyone needs.
- Seconding Everything. Being able to search for text inside of files has been a godsend.
- There's an Addon for Powertoys Run that integrates Everything and it's awesome.
  
  Omg I love you, thedoginthewok!

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.
- PowerToys has a good search engine too
- What if I: Indexed everything in the background forever
  And said: I don't know what the fuck file you're talking about

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

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

Does windows not have the concept of "recents" so you can find things you were just messing with easily
- It did, but even then you could just open it again. NOT find out where the fuck it was stored...
  
  Right click > Open file location

https://www.voidtools.com/
Download everything search.
You're welcome 🤗
- This is the way. Everything is a game changer, couldn't live without it anymore.

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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