I remember a cartoon from 20 years ago or so. It showed a new homeowner standing in his house with boxes laying around. his shirt was labeled "Windows". A mover was coming in with another box and the homeowner said "Just put it anywhere."
You don't always get a choice. When you click save, if autosave randomly decides to turn on (Which is DOES ALL THE TIME) without telling you, it'll save it to your one-drive, but it doesn't tell you that.
And when it doesn't do that, it defaults to the One-Drive. Even if you've saved it elsewhere.
At work, I had saved the document to my desktop because I was working on something longer that took a few days. Had saved it about a dozen times that day. The last time I saved it, the autosave turned on. And then it saved to the documents folder for reasons unknown.
So true. And I don't trust Microsoft's intent on it ONE BIT. Why are they throwing everything on the cloud? What do they get out of it? There has to be something, or else they wouldn't do it. Microsoft doesn't do something for the good of people.
Observation (>20 years teaching) - it is nearly impossible to teach adolescent students (and some adults) about folders and default locations so they can find their documents.
Windows: I have to install an upgrade
Me: Sure, the best times to do that are any day from 7p - 5a
Windows: Haha, screw that...I see you have a meeting in 7 minutes, I'm restarting in 5
What does this mean... If you haven't saved a file yet it opens a save dialogue, it opens the last directory you saved in, or it opens your my documents folder. If its a file you downloaded... Its in your downloads... If you don't know where its saved that's kinda on you.
Fair with how Win 11 appears to be cloud-enabled by default, but it's not like Windows doesn't leave a mountain of info about it...
But this is very relatable. Oof, I'm worried for when we make the switch to 11 at my job, where PC literacy is the exception...
Looks more like what Android offers to the end user regarding photos. But whether you know where your files are on Windows is more related to your applications than to the OS.
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Pay attention while saving.
And when it doesn't do that, it defaults to the One-Drive. Even if you've saved it elsewhere.
If saving locally the auto won’t happen.
So.. use “save as” and then choose which first (local or one drive)
Oh.. and avoid one drive like the fucking plague .. it really does suck. 🤘
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*clicks no repeatedly*
"I'm gonna put you down as a maybe."
Me: Sure, the best times to do that are any day from 7p - 5a
Windows: Haha, screw that...I see you have a meeting in 7 minutes, I'm restarting in 5
But this is very relatable. Oof, I'm worried for when we make the switch to 11 at my job, where PC literacy is the exception...