Giving up control bit by bit
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Opens the files app which shows all files that were recently downloaded from any app to the file system.
I do that with my email. Email has a search function - if I don't know a key word in the email or approximately when it came in, how would I know that I found it if I ever found it in some other way?
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Varies a ton between apps, some use private app storage on Android too (only accessible with root) or in appdata storage (restricted to system apps), or in scattered folders under the regular "user data" folders (easiest by far)
Bonus points if you have an SD card, double bonus points if you manage to have 2 of them, because then you have multiple copies of these standard user data folders
MediaStore recreating the standard Android library folder layout on my SD card no matter how many times I deleted them was infuriating.
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It used to be so much simpler. I remember having a Galaxy S3 and whenever I saved a file I knew exactly where it went. There was a file explorer built in, and downloads went to the downloads folder.
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I have learned the horrors of Apple since getting this thing. Like it for drawing and 3D sculpting, but that's about it.
Oh, so you are a grass trainer? Why, I often roleplay as a Shaymin
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Oh, so you are a grass trainer? Why, I often roleplay as a Shaymin
How many gym badges you got??
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You're confusing the command again
-L, --listfiles package-name... List files installed to your system from package-name. -S, --search filename-search-pattern... Search for a filename from installed packages.
dpkg -S /my/file/path
Finds which, installed, package installed the file.
dpkg -L samba | grep .conf
Greps through the list of files installed by a given package.
If the file you want isn't in there then it wasn't installed by the package itself (could be created on the fly by the binary for example), in which case obviously the package system can't track it.
Oh I see, this command didn't really do what I wanted it to do then. I just wanted to be able to see the locations of any files associated with a program. If I knew the file path I could just find them haha
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I will only grant that, assuming we are only looking at current popular smartphone OS's ... and you turn off gestures
Man I hate gestures. I'd happily use a phone twice as thick if it meant a real keyboard with real function buttons. (I have large hands and blunt fingers, little touchpad keyboard is a nightmare and there's no easy way to attach a stylus of comfortable size)
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Unfortunately this also applies to Flatpak software in Linux. That's one area where distros really need to focus on improving usability.
Maybe flatpack should do a better job of exporting the application data into the user's home.
You can't insist on sandboxing the applications and expect them to export the data on a main user directory.
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I will only grant that, assuming we are only looking at current popular smartphone OS's ... and you turn off gestures
wrote on last edited by [email protected]and you turn off gestures
Yeah, gestures are horrible
assuming we are only looking at current popular smartphone OS's
I was speaking of every interface to navigate a computer for general use. What would you consider to be the best in that regard ?
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You should see how much developing for apple hurts when using a multiplatform ecosystem.
In Flutter for example, there are entire documentation sections on "Apple is incredibly stupid and needs special care"
I can only imagine how painful it is for those developers
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It used to be so much simpler. I remember having a Galaxy S3 and whenever I saved a file I knew exactly where it went. There was a file explorer built in, and downloads went to the downloads folder.
My 2022 android still has a file explorer. But it seems to randomly drop files all over into multiple download folders it created
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Is this your first file system? It literally does sort it into "videos" if I have a video or "images" if it's an image. What do you crack heads want it to do?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Exactly the fucking following: put my fucking files in the directories I fucking created for my fucking files, show me the fucking file system the way it fucking looks when traversed by fucking
ls
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I use Windows and have never encountered what you are describing.
none of my files have ever been 'moved' to OneDrive and none of my files that are on OneDrive have ever been locked behind a paywall.
I often see people saying stuff like this that I never run into. I wonder if the difference is whether your OS is tied to a Microsoft account or not. I used an exploit to bypass the account requirement when I set up Windows 11.
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Oh, so I am not alone. Good to know, but damn what a crap of "software"
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On linux you don't search, you
find
That's a good one
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Oh I see, this command didn't really do what I wanted it to do then. I just wanted to be able to see the locations of any files associated with a program. If I knew the file path I could just find them haha
wrote on last edited by [email protected]dpkg -L PACKAGE_NAME
does what you want. In my initial reply I mentioned thatdpkg -S
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This is a real problem with young people coming into the office. They don't know how to navigate a file system. They've never had to do it.
No, it's a file system issue. It randomly makes folders and decides where to put things. A photo could be in the dcim folder, a photos folder on my outside card or a photos. It may or may not be in recents.
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It used to be so much simpler. I remember having a Galaxy S3 and whenever I saved a file I knew exactly where it went. There was a file explorer built in, and downloads went to the downloads folder.
Literally exactly how it still works.
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It used to be so much simpler. I remember having a Galaxy S3 and whenever I saved a file I knew exactly where it went. There was a file explorer built in, and downloads went to the downloads folder.
That was Samsung doing the work of dumbing things down for you. Stock Android has always been fast and loose with the locality of saved files. Especially if you are doing anything with an image processing app. They tend to make their own dump folders and don't bother telling you that they e made them in their own directory under the .data folder or someplace in .bin
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You should see how much developing for apple hurts when using a multiplatform ecosystem.
In Flutter for example, there are entire documentation sections on "Apple is incredibly stupid and needs special care"
Ohhhhh yes. Flutter + Apple has tested my will to live multiple times.