"My Documents" Question

[Dario D.]

Just wondering what people think regarding how My Documents starts out on a fresh install of Windows. (poll above)

[Woolburr]

I set up my own folders for stuff, on a drive other than the OS drive....so I really don't care what that does.

[Raikyn]

I never use the 'my documents' folder so don't really care how it starts.

[NinetyEight]

Just move the music and pictures etc. to another location...

[russ_hillis]

I just wish I didn't have to drill down to the my pictures folder and the next thing is, when I navigate up one level in the "my pictures folder" WHY do I have to start at the beginning? Drives me nuts!

[EnglishBob]

I set up my own folders for stuff, on a drive other than the OS drive....so I really don't care what that does.

+1 for me.

[Thalagyrt]

It does come completely empty. Here's the tree as per default Windows user profile as of Windows 6.x (Vista/Win7 : 6.0/6.1)
%USERPROFILE%/Documents
%USERPROFILE%/Downloads
%USERPROFILE%/Music
%USERPROFILE%/Pictures
%USERPROFILE%/Videos
%USERPROFILE%/AppData
%USERPROFILE%/Desktop
%USERPROFILE%/Favorites
%USERPROFILE%/Links
%USERPROFILE%/Contacts
%USERPROFILE%/Saved Games

There's nothing in the Documents directory.

Now if you're talking about your home directory, that's a different thing - but your home directory is never referred to as "My Documents" - it contains far more than documents, including your application data, your user registry hive, among other things. Take a look in $Users/username/AppData ( Windows Vista/7/Server 2008 ) or $Users/username/Application Data ( Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 )

Also, worth noting, %USERPROFILE% is a completely valid replacement for your user directory. Try it - start -> run -> %USERPROFILE%/Documents (or %USERPROFILE%/My Documents in 2000/XP/Server 2003) ;)

[NinetyEight]

I just wish I didn't have to drill down to the my pictures folder and the next thing is, when I navigate up one level in the "my pictures folder" WHY do I have to start at the beginning? Drives me nuts!

You don't, just click the 'Pictures' shortcut.
Why are you navigating up one level?

[russ_hillis]

You don't, just click the 'Pictures' shortcut.
Why are you navigating up one level?

You don't open many files from inside of Photoshop do you?

[NinetyEight]

You don't open many files from inside of Photoshop do you?

No I don't and can see what you mean now - I usually use Lightroom and send them to PS that way.
If I need to open files directly in PS I tend to leave open an explorer window and just drag and drop them from there rather than using the 'open' command - much easier IMO!

[russ_hillis]

assuming of course that the thumbnails for CR2 work properly in windows exploder, your method is definitely easier. Also using bridge or the PS elements organizer will save a lot of grief over time.

[Eagle]

I set up my own folders for stuff, on a drive other than the OS drive....so I really don't care what that does.

+1 for me.

+2 here

[NinetyEight]

+2 here

+3... I simply changed the location of my 'Pictures' folder to the root of my 1Tb 'M' drive.

[Eagle]

I have three internal drives. One of them is just pictures. They are also backed up on an external and DVD.