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[–] [email protected] 86 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Have you checked your "Downloads"-folder?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 10 months ago

I'm just checking this meme instead

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Not always, though. Some apps save images to /Pictures, and in there, some of them make their own folder. It really is kinda half baked.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes it's their own folder in their own sandboxed app directory. A lot of apps do that now to avoid permissions issues. Like the GBA emulator I use no longer puts game saves in the user's root directory so you can't even see them without a USB connection to a PC, and even if you do that it's extreme obfuscated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

If you refer to pizza boy, the dev told me by email that there's an option to save somewhere else (I sent an email complaining that hiding saves in /android/data/com.app.blabla is stupid (can only be accessed via USB and it gets wiped when you uninstall the app), at least use /android/media/com.app.blabla

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Ok the first bit I can kinda understand, but obfuscating them? Now that has to be intentional

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

if it's images you're looking for, have you checked your gallery? if an app saves an image in a way it doesn't show up in your gallery, get a better app cuz that one sucks

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (5 children)

where exactly is the downloads folder?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (5 children)

/storage/emulated/0/Download

that's what total commander told me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For Android, I can recommend CX Filebrowser

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I haven't tried that one but FX filebrowser is awesome

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well /storage/emulated/0/ seems to be sort of like a home folder, so it is quite convenient

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's the kind of /home you have when you don't want people to stumble upon it... The kind of place you archive your "homework" in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Not my gentleman's special interest literature!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Who is this commander and why is he is fucking around with my downloads?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

We conveniently place that stuff in /home/$USER in Unix-likes. Even have standards to re-define Downloads & co. path.

Guess Google wanted the share-to-app and share-to-cloud like Apple, but rven there users sometimes like s file manager.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Total Commander is a godsend. I don't know how people use Windows or Android without it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Like the fictional village of Germelshausen, it only appears for a single day every 100 years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In your phone. Just like how your computer has things in the C drive.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

The files are in the computer?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I just run Files and the Downloads folder is listed there under Categories.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

On Android it's in the root folder. So basically if you just open any file explorer app, it should be on the first screen. The equivalent to the "C" drive or "My Computer" on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Ever since like android 11 nothing saves in my download folder anymore on the SD card I have inserted.

Everything gets saved deep in the android subdirectory, and then somewhere in a folder named loosely after the app that downloaded it, where the app has made ANOTHER folder to put the file.

And then you can’t even move it with a third party folder app. It’s gotten so annoying lately I’d swear they just want to kill the SD card from android completely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

On my Android 13 device browsers save in sd card/Android/data/com.my.browser. This folder can only be accessed on the default, hidden file manager or on a PC. Not even read-only access, but straight up nothing. At this point I just don't bother directly downloading to my sd card anymore, I just download to internal storage and move it all to sd card/Downloads every so often

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What, Downloads/04gd8365he.pdf?