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This is a week after a fresh format. As all we do after a fresh format, we begin to reinstall our old applications. For me, this was 3D Studio Max R7 (legal! sorry, I like bragging about that :D) and a bunch of other filmmaking and video editing applications, Google Earth, my Roxio burning bundle, WMP 10 etc. etc. To each his own.
I hate it.
I just formatted. LESS THAN A WEEK AGO. And my \"My Documents\" folder seems like... death. That's what it is. Death is trapped in my hard drive in the form of my defiled \"My Documents\" folder.
Am I the only one who hates software creating it's own little folders? Am I the only one who hates software pooping stupid \"log\" files anywhere for the owner to sit and look at?
My rant of the day. -Pikl
Last edited by A_Pickle on Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:42 pm; edited 1 time in total
I don't really care, I rarely go into 'My Documents'. I have a section for my docs on another partition, so I don't have to mess with all the added folders, and also I don't have to move them around with a reinstall.
I too hate that, but there is always a way to stop that.
The trouble is is that there really isn't. Although Microsoft's Application Guidelines are available online, there's really nothing you can do about these folders. Moving or deleting them may cause an application to stop fuctioning, so you have to wait for an official reply from the company. Then you have to wonder if they even care about your software which is a version down from the current.
For example, within my \"Adobe\" folder, there are \"Layouts.\" These \".layout\" files carry the data that arranges the windows in a certain layout when I'm using Premeire Elements. There's \"advancedeffects.layout,\" \"effects.layout,\" and \"edit.layout.\" Each of these results in a different window configuration within Premeire.
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Application data, such as user preferences, application state, temporary files, and so on, must not be stored within My Documents.
Yes, I hate this also. For my documents and things I save, I have my own seperate folder (so do my parents, I only have one profile on my computer since multiple profiles cause problems with some drivers, programs, etc.). I used Tweak UI to link these folders to all of the places that My Documents appear, so I can access the files quickly.