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Jun. 11th, 2008 09:44 pmStill tired -- and hot -- but noting something that occurred to me at the weekend re: computers.
My instinct when deciding where to save files is to keep things pertaining to a particular interest -- work, writing, photography -- together, subdivided by project. The software manufacturers seem to want to keep all the files generated by a particular program in one place, hence 'My Pictures', 'My ebooks', 'My publications'. The collision of these two paradigms creates a mess, frankly. What I really want in my top-level Documents directory is two folders labeled 'home' and 'work' and whatever random unimportant files happen to land there. What I have is all that, plus a bunch of 'My whatever' folders dumped there by various programs, most of which don't contain anything I actually want to open from the folder and which I would much rather have tucked away out of sight.
My instinct when deciding where to save files is to keep things pertaining to a particular interest -- work, writing, photography -- together, subdivided by project. The software manufacturers seem to want to keep all the files generated by a particular program in one place, hence 'My Pictures', 'My ebooks', 'My publications'. The collision of these two paradigms creates a mess, frankly. What I really want in my top-level Documents directory is two folders labeled 'home' and 'work' and whatever random unimportant files happen to land there. What I have is all that, plus a bunch of 'My whatever' folders dumped there by various programs, most of which don't contain anything I actually want to open from the folder and which I would much rather have tucked away out of sight.
