Documents folder? You want to rule my whole computer, dictate some nonsensical folder structure and then you act like, out of the goodness of your heart, I can have this little set of folders, deep in your weird structure, to store my stuff? And you're even telling me how to sort it? On my own hard drive connected to my own computer?

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And then at some point, games started saving inside documents. Ok, it makes sense to have game save files in a user area instead of a subfolder in the game install area, but they aren't documents. Just make a new game saves folder or something like that, don't just stick all my game save files in the same area, cluttering up my own organization.

Though I did solve it kinda by just making a new documents subfolder in my documents where I put my actual documents.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"%userprofile%\Saved Games" exists, but most games that i've seen don't use it by default, or even can't use it due to its own shortcomings.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, ultimately the issue is probably more about an attempt to go from a completely unmanaged file system where it was just big free for all with the hope everyone would behave nicely to a more managed design that still needed to maintain backwards compatibility with the old system where there were a slew of programs that depended on a bunch of undocumented behavior.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

While we are at it I'd like to see music be called audio.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

There is a folder for game saves iirc.

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What OS doesn't do that, even linux has xdg dirs

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I unironically do this. There was one update that wiped one guy's Documents/Downloads/Images/Videos. So I made my own and store my things there.