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Yeah. Except in Office products on Mac, where some genius realized that when user selects “Save as…”, they don’t want to save the file to the same folder where it currently is, but rather to a random folder that was used for a completely unrelated thing recently.
It's been more than a decade since I used a Mac as my daily driver but I remeber this not being an office only thing to in applications that auto save. At least Mac has a decent search function that makes finding things easy and fast, assuming you know the file name. Even with indexing windows is terrible for that without third party applications for searching.
Oh, you meant Windows. This is a Windows issue.
And Android
Unless you use termux only
Don't know if its a win 11 issue, of just work is forcing One Drive, but the default save location is on One Drive
I ran into this and became absolutely baffled, because One Drive wasn't open or logged in or even enabled at all. The computer wasn't actually saving things to One Drive, but somehow Windows is able to have two different names for the same filepath. C:/Documents is the same folder as C:/OneDrive/user/username/blahblah/Documents. I don't see how this is possible, but it appears I can't change it.
Just save it again to a known location. :)
Once upon a time in the early days of the internet I watched someone copying a doc file with word to a diskette for me. Open file, observe its content, save as. It was decades ago, I'm still unsure if stupid or genius.