At 09:58 PM 3/26/2009, katan wrote: >The "Libraries" folder seems pointless. It's just a rehash of some of >the folders in "Username" (My Pictures, My Music, My Documents, and My >Videos).
This sort of data storage arrangement has always seemed to me to be the wrong way to go. The first thing that I do when I set up a new computer is arrange storage of data files by topic (content), not by data type. The idea of storing data files by data type has always seemed strange to me. It might be ok for a very few files and someone who regularly trashes old stuff, but the concept just isn't scalable for me. If MS is going to "improve" the OS at each "upgrade," it ought to work on helping the user with usable data storage arrangements. "My Pictures" hasn't changed since day one, I don't think. There may be some options now, but they aren't "advertised." When a vendor puts an image of the OS from his vendor's setup copy onto the users machine, he doesn't ask the user what sort of data storage arrangement is desired and customize accordingly. For the foregoing reasons, I keep data on an external hard drive, and just move it to a new computer when I purchase one. Backup is to an additional external hard drive. It has always seemed strange to me that the "home" edition of an MS OS is just a crippled version of the corporate edition. The home / home office edition of an OS should have all the bells and whistles that a user might need, and just eliminate (or turn off) all the tools that the IT department uses in a corporate environment to manage a computer remotely. The user interface should [optonally?] be set up under the assumption that the user is the administrator, and, in particular, will himself install all additional applications, etc. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
