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.

[–] abir_vandergriff 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 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.

[–] isosphere 11 points 1 year ago

Office is weird about it because of their OneDrive product

[–] wpuckering@lm.williampuckering.com 11 points 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.

[–] amio@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

git: 'gud' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

pip install good

[–] fidodo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 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.

[–] worfamerryman 4 points 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 1 points 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

[–] Little8Lost@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm having trouble understanding your sentence.

[–] Little8Lost@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 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.