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

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.

This is the best I can do:

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.

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.

Having your own hierarchy of folders works nice with pretty much anything but Office and wine-d applications. There's no problem understanding the latter, but the first one brings a lot of confusion with it's insistence to use C:\Users%username%\Documents even though you never ever opened this folder intentionally.

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.

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.

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

She's not wrong

I hate this cancer so much. I've even forcefully removed it from my system, and Word still tries to save it there and then hangs for 30 secs while realizing that shit is gone.

Seriously, why isn't it as simple as a Steam>Screenshots with folders by game? I have to google it every time it comes up.

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

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.

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

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."

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

You can make subdirectories under "Documents"

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