The dialog you get when you want to open or save files from an application like WORD or so.
I have found a work around: by adding the library to the favorites.
According to the article, you have to select “Show All Folders” to get libraries to show in Save As dialogues.
first time reader
7 years ago
About libraries, after making them show (the way you explained), I found a way to make this a lot more transparent for use, which was, to rename the libraries. The library formerly called Documents, I renamed DocsLib. The library formerly called Music, I renamed MusLib. Etc. Then I no longer had this confusing DocumentsDocuments buggy-looking display. (I wonder why that was not the default option anyway.)
Leah Horner
5 years ago
This lesson is all new and very confusing to me–especially when I have to read the instructions on my desktop, then minimize it and open my File Explorer to try to do what the instructions say. By then, I’ve forgotten almost everything I’ve read and have to go back and forth. It’s also confusing when you have to explain the procedure for Windows 10, 8 and 7; too much!
Ken
5 years ago
No. Libraries are a confusing feature of old Windows – I have always found them very irritating.
Libraries are one of the worst ideas Microsoft has ever implimented.
If you want to eventually lose all your cherished files, music, videos, and photos use libraries. Stupid, stupid, STUPID!
Bob_WA
4 years ago
I don’t get it. In my Windows 10 / Folder Options / View / Navigation Pane
the checkbox “Show libraries” is definitely un-checked (and “Applied”).
But File Explorer still displays Libraries (eg under Pictures there is Camera Roll).
Any comments?
It might happen because you’ve checked the “Show all folders” option?
wa du
4 years ago
love them
michael
3 years ago
no I have lost so many video’s with these libraries, you make a copy then move the main video to somewhere else and it deletes the copy. All you have to do is create a folder and put anything you want in it then you don’t lose anything. Michael
fukushimadeath
3 years ago
thank you. finally broke down and got PC with Win10, and the first thing i noticed was no libraries…thanks again…have put a shortcut to your site on my desktop…now i have to try and remember how I created a new library in Win7 to create the search I need, and figure out how to get the results in the oder I need….sigh..
SoCalBryan
3 years ago
So instead of teaching people how a file system works microsoft decided that they needed to create libraries. This is where you should put your files.
I’ve been using Microsoft OS’s since windows 3.0 and can honestly say that it chaps my ass that Microsoft keeps trying to make their OS’s easier for morons a yet neglect those that have been using their software for years.
So all the advances in their new OS Windows 10 does not make the OS easier 2 use for experts. In fact if you completely change the OS then everyone has to learn it anew. This is PINA for advanced users.
Microsoft keeps thinking they should make the OS easier to attract Android and Iphone users. Apparently they didnt get the memo that they already lost those users.
Myles Dear
1 year ago
I use the Downloads library, Dropbox intercepts it and hooks it into cloud storage.
I don’t really use the other libraries much, since most everything is organized in my Dropbox so I have content on all my devices without vendor lockin.
Great, but now the questions is how to get it back in the windows file dialog …. arggggg
What do you mean by “The Windows File Dialog”?
The dialog you get when you want to open or save files from an application like WORD or so.
I have found a work around: by adding the library to the favorites.
According to the article, you have to select “Show All Folders” to get libraries to show in Save As dialogues.
About libraries, after making them show (the way you explained), I found a way to make this a lot more transparent for use, which was, to rename the libraries. The library formerly called Documents, I renamed DocsLib. The library formerly called Music, I renamed MusLib. Etc. Then I no longer had this confusing DocumentsDocuments buggy-looking display. (I wonder why that was not the default option anyway.)
This lesson is all new and very confusing to me–especially when I have to read the instructions on my desktop, then minimize it and open my File Explorer to try to do what the instructions say. By then, I’ve forgotten almost everything I’ve read and have to go back and forth. It’s also confusing when you have to explain the procedure for Windows 10, 8 and 7; too much!
No. Libraries are a confusing feature of old Windows – I have always found them very irritating.
Agreed.
Libraries are one of the worst ideas Microsoft has ever implimented.
If you want to eventually lose all your cherished files, music, videos, and photos use libraries. Stupid, stupid, STUPID!
I don’t get it. In my Windows 10 / Folder Options / View / Navigation Pane
the checkbox “Show libraries” is definitely un-checked (and “Applied”).
But File Explorer still displays Libraries (eg under Pictures there is Camera Roll).
Any comments?
It might happen because you’ve checked the “Show all folders” option?
love them
no I have lost so many video’s with these libraries, you make a copy then move the main video to somewhere else and it deletes the copy. All you have to do is create a folder and put anything you want in it then you don’t lose anything. Michael
thank you. finally broke down and got PC with Win10, and the first thing i noticed was no libraries…thanks again…have put a shortcut to your site on my desktop…now i have to try and remember how I created a new library in Win7 to create the search I need, and figure out how to get the results in the oder I need….sigh..
So instead of teaching people how a file system works microsoft decided that they needed to create libraries. This is where you should put your files.
I’ve been using Microsoft OS’s since windows 3.0 and can honestly say that it chaps my ass that Microsoft keeps trying to make their OS’s easier for morons a yet neglect those that have been using their software for years.
So all the advances in their new OS Windows 10 does not make the OS easier 2 use for experts. In fact if you completely change the OS then everyone has to learn it anew. This is PINA for advanced users.
Microsoft keeps thinking they should make the OS easier to attract Android and Iphone users. Apparently they didnt get the memo that they already lost those users.
I use the Downloads library, Dropbox intercepts it and hooks it into cloud storage.
I don’t really use the other libraries much, since most everything is organized in my Dropbox so I have content on all my devices without vendor lockin.