Windows 10: Save As: determining path

I'm one month into Windows 10, and right now the thing that worries me most is the withdrawal of certainty in the placing of files. All of my files have duplicates in a permanently attached backup drive, and the worst thing that can happen is that I accidentally save a file in the wrong place.


There are two critical issues: which copy have I currently got open, and which location am I about to save in. I was previously using Windows 7, and if I wanted to check which copy of a file I had open, I would click on Save As and check the path in the navigation pane on the left. Windows 10 doesn't seem to show the path. So how can I tell whether I'm working on the primary copy or the backup?


Then comes the moment when I actually do want to Save As, renaming the file but placing it in the primary location. Windows 7 opened a window showing the file in the location from which it came, and all I need to do to update is to rename the file. Instead, Windows 10 offers me what, knowing better than me, it thinks are a few locations where I might want to save it.


My first problem is that this requires me to read, and to think. My eyesight isn't all that good, and at the end of a long day I'm highly prone to accident. The location at the top of the Windows list will be identified as 'Today.' It doesn't indicate the path. There is no indication that it's the location from which the file came. Question: Can I assume with absolute certainty that the folder at the top of the list will be the one from which the file came?


Windows does offer me an alternative, named Browse. This will open a Save As window that at first sight resembles the one familiar from Windows 7. The difference is that, once again, the path is not indicated. I'm driving blind. My next question: Can I assume, with absolute certainty, that Windows is offering me the location from which the file came. I know this sounds like a stupid question, but the lack of information, coupled with my own fallibility, worries me.


My final question: is there something I can do with settings that would force Windows to disclose to me a which copy of a file I have open and b where I am about to Save As. Can I make Windows less secretive about the path?

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Add a path to $PATH?

what exactly do you need to decipher about that path line? also, what are you installing? perhaps i can help.

 

Add a path to $PATH?

Yeah, I think you're right. I think the purpose of the echo command was to check if ~/bin was in the $PATH file. My problem is that I can't decipher the output and I don't know how to add ~/bin to the $PATH file.

Just for clarification, the snippet of instructions I gave is just a few steps in the installation process. Nothing is actually supposed to be installed with those steps.

Thanks for the reply.

 

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