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To be honest, it is quite complicated now as well with all of the proprietary software (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Some people have diacritics and spaces in their usernames, which wreaks havoc for badly written programs accessing AppData or folders in the user's "home" directory, such as Documents. And there are lots of such programs.

When setting up Windows, use a short and memorable, DOS-compatible username, and then change it later (the home folder will still have the old name). You can then move indiidual Libraries (Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures and Videos) to the root of D:\ too.

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

programs writing shit in the document folder are so freaking annoying. I typically backup my document folder, as they contains most of my user files.

And some stupid program just decide to litter it with their temporary file, and game saves....

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

It is okay if they only do what you asked for.

"Okay, Audacity, save to 'C:\Users\me\Documents\recording.aup'"

*folder 'C:\Users\me\Documents\recording_data' shows up*

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

Oh no, I think AoE (some version) will sometimes save game file to Documents, and IIRC, wechat will save temp file to documents without user interaction

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