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Stop the madness: Subdirectories of My Documents

December 28, 2006 Dec 28, 2006 12/28/06

Raymond Chen

As a follow-up to the difference between My Documents and Application Data, I'd like to rant about all the subdirectories of My Documents that programs create because they think they're so cool. I'm sure there are more. Everything in the My Documents folder the user should be able to point to and say, "I remember creating that file on ...