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Default Documents/Music/Pictures/Videos folder alternatives?
For those of us finally fed up with the colossal mess applications have made of them (particularly “Documents”). And also for those of us still with just the “C:\” drive to work with.
I’ve long heard that it’s simply not viable to use a new “Local Disc C:\” folder for such purposes, for incessant nagging of permissions and now UAC. Also even that many applications can't work with files coming from/going to there for those very same reasons. Or Is this still true? Is there a way to make it work, anyway?
And, apparently, it is also a bad idea to simply just nest a folder within “Desktop” (as, for some inexplicable reason, it’s not protected from restore operations; I do manually backup my stuff to external drives, but...). Which is exactly what I’d first thought to resort to... dammit!
Also much to my consternation, there’s no ability whatsoever to add new “This PC” nor “User” folders. Surely there’s a rational, even good, explanation for this but it still rankles.
So if none of those are in fact viable, then what can we actually do?
I’m worn clean out of wading through dozens of extraneous applications junk folders to find and use my actual personal files. And I know I’m pretty far from alone in that. And “Libraries” isn’t really a solution; I do work with the actual files, for my manual backups and such.
I’d also prefer to not have to buy a new internal drive (not until I actually need one to pair with the wee M.2 drives). It’s frankly beyond the pale that that should even be necessary to have just *one* little corner with *only* my personal files, and that’s legitimately clean and organized (not merely ‘emulated’ that way, via “Libraries” etc).
As I’m sure MS will never get around to implementing anything like this (say, a secular: user account name/My data/“My Documents/My Music/My Pictures/My Videos”, sort of like it was before), and that app devs would just abuse it all over again even if they did... what’s our recourse? Or, is there even one to be had at all?