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Living Room / Re: Are we allowed to avoid the "My Docs" mess in Win7?

« on: July 27, 2011, 11:44 PM »

My strategy for this is very simple.

I don't f*ck with where Windows (and other applications) wants to put and name the "My Documents" or "Documents" folder.  I leave it right where MS wants to put it.

But.. and here's the key point.. I don't go near that directory with my own files.  I use my own custom MyDocs folder for any program data that *I* have control over.  So any program where i have a choice, and where I care about the data, I save to the MyDocs folder.

This has the great advantage of letting you easily distinguish the relatively small number documents that you actually work with and care about (which are in MyDocs), and those that are auto managed and you probably don't much care about, in the "My Documents" path.

-mouser (July 25, 2011, 02:03 PM)

Yes very nice mouser I agree with you. Better to not f*ck with the Windows folders and make a set of your own on a separate partition. I think it's the best way.