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I hate when programs download to some god-knows-where custom folder instead of your desktop by default (self.microthoughts)

submitted 1 year ago by _number8_ to c/microthoughts

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[–] Lev_Astov 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean the Downloads folder? Who downloads to their desktop?

[–] _number8_ 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah bit of a typo - i guess i meant 'when programs output' somewhere random, like when you're converting a file

[–] saltesc 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate games the fill up my Documents folder.

My Documents and Documents folders have had ironic existences fot many Windows releases. I've never used them because it's pointless to try.

[–] talos 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Agreed. I have another folder I call Archive to store my files. My Documents is an unusable data ghetto.

[–] crashex 2 points 1 year ago

Obscure/Folder/With/Beware/Of/Jaguar/Tag

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Why should downloads go to your desktop? Downloads should go to the downloads folder or if the content is only usable by the program then it should go to it's respective AppData.

[–] centaur_lizard 2 points 1 year ago

I thought I lost weeks of research until I had to click the checkbox to SHOW HIDDEN FILES. Bitch, did I tell you to hide that spider data?!

[–] dusky 1 points 1 year ago

Some programs detect my downloads folder as new folder and it is so confusing