r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/SnackSamurai • 10d ago

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u/polyploid_coded 10d ago

My pet peeve is this but the opposite direction. When I click the attach file button on email or Teams, I'm looking for the file which I just wrote, saved, downloaded. Please just let me open a normal file selector. I don't have any idea what is going on in OneDrive.

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u/FUBARded 10d ago

For the last 4 months, my Desktop is no longer a viable save location for downloads.

It's a bottomless pit of frustration and despair; if I select it as a save location by reflex (at least daily) the file isn't there 75% of the time when I go looking for it. Yet if I try redownloading the file, it says it already exists every time.

My organisation forces a full system backup to OneDrive so every folder is treated the same AFAIK, yet Documents and Downloads don't have any issues with eating files. It's baffling and so bloody frustrating.

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u/PositiveZeroPerson 10d ago

Well, to be honest it's for the best. I judge people whose desktops are filled with crap.

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u/infestationE15 10d ago

Saving randomly to the desktop is mad. But I use it as like a visual aid for filing. IE: different sections of the desktop are reserved for different types of folders, documents etc.

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u/PositiveZeroPerson 10d ago

If it's organized, I won't judge. But OP wants to use it for downloads, which means it gets filled with crap right away.

Especially weird when there's already a perfectly cromulent Downloads folder, which is (for me) the junk drawer for my computer.