I'll have to disagree here, Andrey.

No application should EVER touch the "My Documents" folder without explicit
user permission. This is the user space, and in an ideal world, the user
should never find things he didn't himself put in there.

There's even an MS guideline about that somewhere, but I couldn't find it
--- and yes, I must admit that MS itself disrespects this quite often. 
All I could find for now was this rant here:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001032.html

If an application need to store user-specific configuration, it should use
one of the user-specific "application data" folders:
https://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/07/01/434647.aspx

As a side note, MLO should not drop an icon in the desktop without notice.
Put a checkbox in the installation package (using 'checked' as the default,
if you will). 
For me, not dropping things in the my documents folder and in the user
desktop is a matter of application politeness with users... :)

Anyway, people may not care much about this, but I just felt like using this
opportunity to say it. :)

All the best,

Luciano Passuello
http://litemind.com
~Exploring ways to use our minds efficiently.




-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrey
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 9:27
To: MyLifeOrganized
Subject: [MLO] Re: MyLifeOrganized folder in My Documents


No, because it is windows standard practice to use My Documents for
such things.
Users (and as result MLO application) may not have rights to create
folders in Program Files branch after installation. but always have
rights to My Documents.

A.

On May 25, 11:46 am, Diam0nd <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have quite a few folders in my /My Documents/ folder. MLO creates
> another one there called MyLifeOrganized. This is very inconvenient,
> because as I said there is already too many folders there. Is it
> possible that this folder is stored in another more remote location
> or, better yet, in that folder where MLO is installed?



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