{"id":28563,"date":"2006-12-28T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/12\/28\/stop-the-madness-subdirectories-of-my-documents\/"},"modified":"2006-12-28T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T10:00:02","slug":"stop-the-madness-subdirectories-of-my-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20061228-02\/?p=28563","title":{"rendered":"Stop the madness: Subdirectories of My Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/07\/01\/434647.aspx\"> the difference between My Documents and Application Data<\/a>, I&#8217;d like to rant about all the subdirectories of My Documents that programs create because they think <strong>they&#8217;re so cool<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visual Studio Projects <\/li>\n<li>My eBooks <\/li>\n<li>My Received Files <\/li>\n<li>Remote Desktops <\/li>\n<li>My Scans <\/li>\n<li>My Data Sources <\/li>\n<li>My Virtual Machines <\/li>\n<li>My Archives <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> I&#8217;m sure there are more.\n Everything in the My Documents folder the user should be able to point to and say, &#8220;I remember creating that file on such-and-such date when I did a &#8216;Save&#8217; from Program&nbsp;Q.&#8221; If it doesn&#8217;t pass that test, then don&#8217;t put it into My Documents. Use Application Data.\n And don&#8217;t create subdirectories off of My Documents. If the user wants to organize their documents into subdirectories, that&#8217;s their business. You just ask them where they want their documents and let it go at that.\n (Yes, I&#8217;m not a fan of My Music, My Videos, and My Pictures, either.)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shahine.com\/omar\/MyDocuments.aspx\">Omar Shahine points out that Apple has similar guidelines for the Macintosh<\/a>. I wonder how well people follow them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to the difference between My Documents and Application Data, I&#8217;d like to rant about all the subdirectories of My Documents that programs create because they think they&#8217;re so cool. Visual Studio Projects My eBooks My Received Files Remote Desktops My Scans My Data Sources My Virtual Machines My Archives I&#8217;m sure there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-28563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>As a follow-up to the difference between My Documents and Application Data, I&#8217;d like to rant about all the subdirectories of My Documents that programs create because they think they&#8217;re so cool. Visual Studio Projects My eBooks My Received Files Remote Desktops My Scans My Data Sources My Virtual Machines My Archives I&#8217;m sure there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}