On 09.11.2017 18:06, Jehan Pagès wrote:
DOCUMENTS
The purpose is not obvious.
Well. "Documents" feels quite obvious to me. This is to save all kind
of "documents". :P
It is quite a generic term and I actually use it this way. Personally
my Documents/ folder is very organized with many sub-folders per
topic. Apart from some very specific files (music, videos…), most of
my files go in a subfolder of Documents/. I basically use it quite
similarly to how most people use $HOME. This allows my $HOME to stay
quite clean in the end.
That’s very vague.
MUSIC
PICTURES
VIDEOS
No program seems to use these folders. Their purpose is not obvious to me.
That's funny. These are the 3 folders which are the most obvious to me
in the whole list! I mean, their names are pretty self-explanatory,
no?
As for I, I use them to store what their name say: music, pictures and
videos. Also I am pretty sure they are commonly used by various
software.
For each of those, I can think of four categories:
A) automatically saved files, such as screenshots, thumbnails, profile
pictures, example images, diagrams, webcam images etc.
B) downloaded, but manually reviewed and categorized files, i.e.
downloaded pictures, music, programs, movies, documentaries, manuals etc.
C) personal data, i.e. files that myself or a relative or friend has
worked on, i.e. my band’s music, home videos, my own drawings, family
pictures, letters etc.
D) archived files: files that should still be kept, but will propably
not change anymore, i.e. backups, completed or abandoned projects etc.
This should be clarified first, because it doesn’t make sense to mix
these categories.
Greetings,
Thomas
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