Actually Norman along with the proposed move I would like to see MS make it a hidden folder and then the average Joe Blow user will not know where it is. Just create ~/Library/Application Support/.Microsoft User Data
AL Grant On 3/14/06 4:29 PM, "Norman Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 14, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote: > >> >>> OS X has always had a Library folder in the user home. Application >>> support has been there as far back as I can remember, definitely >>> since 10.2. Big change for how office works? Well it would mean >>> changing the code to specify the new folder but other than that, as >>> long as the MUD stays in the user home, what would it change? >> >> Where most people expect to find it, that's all. > > Where your argument breaks down, Paul (IMHO), is that the MUD is not > a folder that most users should expect to find in the first place. > Nor was it ever such. If everything is running/working the ways it's > supposed to, a user should never need to know that the MUD folder > even exists. The fact that, once upon a time, there wasn't a better > place for it than the Documents folder does not mean that it should > continue to be placed there in such a way that many users do indeed > muck it up. > > I would hope that with the next major release of MS Office for the > Mac that MS would place this folder in the ~/Library/Application > Support/ folder where it (now) belongs. It might even be publicized > as a 'feature' that prevents certain kinds of data loss. > > open netsĀ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
