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[ellarien]

Still 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.

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[ellarien]

Come to think of it, I could point that at the 'work' directory, at least. What I really want is an option to set to look first in the directory where the main file is, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think there is.

And of course different applications aren't standard because PhotoShop Elements (amongst other apps) remembers where you saved things last time and looks there first, which may or may not be helpful.

[ellarien]

It's not evens standard between different Office applications, as I discovered yesterday. Word can change where it looks for pictures, but PowerPoint can't!