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[–] [email protected] 69 points 7 months ago (4 children)

C:\users\ass-face\appdata\microsoft\office\temp\bin\fuck\you{v52jsu82wbsjsj}~sjsjxmdbau278d6zhs.doc

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Don't forget; the apppdata folder is hidden by default too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And that it'll help you by clearing your temporary documents next reboot

[–] Thunderbird4 5 points 7 months ago

Which will occur at whatever undisclosed time that Windows Updates deems prudent.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

To be fair, this is not a windows exclusive problem, especially in the age of smartphones and flatpak.

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[–] RestrictedAccount 5 points 7 months ago

Gotta love those SharePoint addresses

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

The entire ms office suite has become the worst for this. No I don't want to save this document into the generic documents folder of my OneDrive, or into poorly named folders that do not show any file tree whatsoever. Don't make me click 4 different places just to get back to a normal save as dialog box so I can put it in neatly organized folders like they're supposed to be.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (3 children)

So much this. On my office computer I need to do half a dozen of clicks before I get a properly identifiable save location. This is just ridiculous.

[–] deweydecibel 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's part of a long term strategy from Microsoft to break users of their habits, i.e. managing your own computer the way you want to manage it, and instead get them to stop thinking and just let Microsoft tell you what goes where (hint: it's the cloud).

That's why everything in Windows seems to be less and less concerned with the actual Windows operating system and the software in it, and more concerned with Edge, web apps, and OneDrive. That's why they force the account in the OOBE, why they won't let you forget you're not using OneDrive in the File explorer.

That's why desktop/local OneNote was effectively destroyed and now it's basically just a cloud service. It's more profitable if user's shit is locked on their server instead of locally. They're slowly getting ready to do the same thing to Outlook.

Their dream, their wildest ambition for Windows is for it to be something like a kiosk you use to access 365 on the web via Edge. To get there, they'd really, really, really like you to stop thinking about anything local.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is the best I can do:

[–] onelikeandidie 17 points 7 months ago

What the hell is a backstage Microsoft

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No I don't want to Dave this document into the generic documents folder of my OneDrive

I am now imagining a guy named Dave who is infamous for storing his files in a disorganized manner.

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[–] deweydecibel 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

In case you didn't know, the OG Documents folder is still there under /users/[you]/ and you can put shit in it without OneDrive trying to get it's sticky fingers all over it. Unfortunately save as won't default to it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

MS Office has a bastardized save menu that pretends your PC only has 5 folders.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Been helping with multiple friends with their laptops. Windows 11 systems and the directories are all fucked up. Windows wants everything synced to Onedrive and so when you click on downloads or something it goes to onedrive's downloads and so forth. It's fucking hell I have to delete onedrive and find \documents again and try to pin it in the file explorer side panel to make it so it's useful again.

Isn't this operating system supposed to be noob friendly? If they figure out how to go back to windows 10 22h2 then they can probably find out where the directories are already.

Btw, all these computers are stock and not modified.

[–] Anticorp 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They want your subscription. They don't care about friendly. They make it confusing on purpose, since less knowledgeable people will just sign up for the paid plan. It's a dark pattern.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (5 children)

This is nearly identical to the Apple ecosystem. Everything gets virtually pathed and saved to your iCloud account unless you direct it to do otherwise. Oh, and you can't manage iOS to do otherwise, short of disabling the iCloud uploads. In Windows, for people who blindly (or intentionally) choose OneDrive for their cloud service, it's essentially transparent. I'm not saying it's right, but for the pc-as-an-appliance crowd, it's pretty smooth when it works.

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[–] Jackcooper 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It got so much worse with the heavy suggesting of OneDrive and Microsoft intentionally misleading people into thinking they've successfully clicked out of using OneDrive.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Just go back and Save As again and it will take you to the last location it saved to

[–] HoustonHenry 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, easy! I wish I could do that with Android 🤣

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[–] mods_are_assholes 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This isn't going away because most users are raised on tablets nowadays and fewer people than you expect understand directory trees.

[–] Anticorp 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It baffles me how people don't understand file trees. Is folders inside of folders really a difficult concept to understand?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Real conversation I had with my Mum multiple times:

Mum: I can't find X.

Me: Where do you normaly save it?

Mum: In Word.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

She's not wrong

[–] Passerby6497 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Me: *uses save as to figure out where it saved something last*

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[–] Anticorp 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

OneDrive! Is that where you wanted it saved? Too bad! Sign up for a subscription now!

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[–] trailblazer911 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

How to recycle an already stupid meme (The one about Android isn't even a week old).

[–] sheogorath 12 points 7 months ago

Just don't look where iOS apps save their stuff.

[–] Duamerthrax 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, the android thing is fucked. I have no idea where Firefox saves shit to and god help me if I want one app to see files downloaded by another app. VLC isn't even allowed to see where Newpipe saves files to on my phone. Syncthing isn't even allowed to write files to the sd card. It's all stupid fucked and why I'm making sure to get a GrapheneOS or LineageOS compatible phone next.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Firefox saves to the Download folder, luckily.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is an app problem rather than an OS problem.

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[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 14 points 7 months ago

Even worse when it’s buried in a hidden folder, and for some reason Windows keeps disabling the “view hidden folders and files” option with every single update.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Is—Is this what getting old feels like?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)
  1. Re-open the application
  2. Save empty xocument
  3. Look where it's saving
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Or just Save As and copy the location that it opens to.

[–] vegantomato 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

This is just the "Android meme" being repeated again, but with Windows instead of Android.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Microsoft Teams is the worst! You click download, there is no prompt, and your "downloaded" file is nowhere to be found.

[–] deweydecibel 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's a taste of things to come.

Microsoft doesn't want you thinking about files and folders, they want you thinking about apps and services. Like Apple.

Where'd the file go?

"Why do you need to know? Just keep using the app to look at the thing you download, silly. you don't even need to do anything outside of our shitty web apps ever again."

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[–] SpaceNoodle 5 points 7 months ago

And that's far from the worst thing about Teams.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

c: \ \users\bob\ .appdata\ .roaming\notporn\pom.xml\ .appdata\d: \ \desktop\mydocuments\documents\onedrive\system31\windows\dev\swap1\sda1\Documents

[–] niktemadur 9 points 7 months ago

"I saved it in Windows"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Everything by voidtools will find it in seconds..

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thank God there is that recent folder you can access in the "Home" thing, whatever that means. 9 times out of 10 it's in my Documents folder. Who the fuck wants a Documents folder? I put documents in a file structure according to where they belong. Downloads is the pit of the forgotten.

[–] SpaceNoodle 7 points 7 months ago (11 children)

You can make subdirectories under "Documents"

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[–] AnUnusualRelic 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Save to A: so it's easier to move your work to another computer.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 17 points 7 months ago

Just tried this and my computer sprouted a floppy disk drive. Weird.

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