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| Now where did I put that file? - Part 2 (Cont.) |
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| So where the heck ARE “My Documents”? |
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| Before I start bashing the "My Documents" concept, just let me say for the record that I’m a loyal fan of Microsoft’s products and all they have to offer. But sometimes in their zeal to make their products user-friendly, Microsoft works under the mistaken notion that they know what we need better than we do (like the time I asked a Microsoft FrontPage developer why the program was rewriting my HTML code & removing my Javascript code. His response was, “because we're Microsoft!”). |
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| When you use Windows Explorer or My Computer to look at your system, My Documents appears in your list of folders as a separate “file cabinet” – it’s listed totally separate from your drives. But that can be confusing because My Documents is really a folder that resides a few levels deep in another file cabinet (your C: drive) inside the Documents and Settings “drawer.” |
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Plus, newer versions of Windows also display your most-recently accessed folders in My Documents as well. This can be very confusing because it looks like all these folders are in
one place, when in fact they're actually located all over one or more hard drives on your system – so My Documents is not showing you a true representation of your actual file storage system. |
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My Documents also contains sub-folders under it like My Videos, My Pictures, My Music, etc.
So if you save a photo from a Microsoft photo editing program, for example, the Save function will default to the My Pictures folder. That’s not a bad thing in itself, but if you also use Adobe Photoshop to edit pictures, you’ll likely end up storing those files somewhere else – or you’ll need to navigate to the My Documents folder which isn’t all that intuitive to find. |
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