mechanic wrote:
> Piet wrote:
>>> QUESTION: If I create a My Documents folder, should it be located in the
>>> directory named Users\my_name ?
>>
>> https://www.dummies.com/article/technology/computers/operating-systems/windows/windows-10/how-to-change-the-location-of-user-folders-in-windows-10-140269
>>
>> I would always recommend creating a separate user partition on a HDD, since
>> I consider C: as a strict *system* partition, not to be clogged with typical
>> user data. With LO, and any other software, you can save files in any folder
>> you want on that partition.
>
> User data in C:\Users\<name_of_user>\, system stuff in C:\(more or
> less everything else)\ , what's the problem?

No problem. Just what you regard as "system stuff", I regard as "user stuff".

-p

"Piet" <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> wrote

| > User data in C:\Users\<name_of_user>\, system stuff in C:\(more or
| > less everything else)\ , what's the problem?
| | No problem. Just what you regard as "system stuff", I regard as "user
stuff".
|

Ah. The voice of reason from someone who owns
their own computer. :)

On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:55:50 -0800, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

>On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 21:41:12 +0100, "Carlos E.R."
><robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On 2022-01-29 19:43, mechanic wrote:
>>> On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 11:19:23 +0100, Piet wrote:
>>>
>>>>> QUESTION: If I create a My Documents folder, should it be located in the
>>>>> directory named Users\my_name ?
>>>>
>>>> https://www.dummies.com/article/technology/computers/operating-systems/windows/windows-10/how-to-change-the-location-of-user-folders-in-windows-10-140269
>>>>
>>>> I would always recommend creating a separate user partition on a HDD, since
>>>> I consider C: as a strict *system* partition, not to be clogged with typical
>>>> user data. With LO, and any other software, you can save files in any folder
>>>> you want on that partition.
>>>
>>> User data in C:\Users\<name_of_user>\, system stuff in C:\(more or
>>> less everything else)\ , what's the problem?
>>
>>The advantage is that with user data in D:, you can simply format C:
>>when the times come. Nothing important gets lost.
>
>I have an SSD as my C: with all my user data on drives D and later.
>Trouble is there are all sorts of software that one downloads (for me
>the most recent has been the latest Skyrim update) that INSISTS on
>installing on C which annoys the hell out of me for specifically that
>reason.

If you want to install all your software on D: so you can format C:
without losing your software, that's wrong. You can't. Except for a
very rare mostly trivial program, all software has many references in
C:, in the registry and elsewhere. Regardless of where the program is
installed, format C: and all those references are gone and the
programs won't work.

On 2022-02-01 17:14, Ken Blake wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:55:50 -0800, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 21:41:12 +0100, "Carlos E.R."
>> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2022-01-29 19:43, mechanic wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 11:19:23 +0100, Piet wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> QUESTION: If I create a My Documents folder, should it be located in the
>>>>>> directory named Users\my_name ?
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.dummies.com/article/technology/computers/operating-systems/windows/windows-10/how-to-change-the-location-of-user-folders-in-windows-10-140269
>>>>>
>>>>> I would always recommend creating a separate user partition on a HDD, since
>>>>> I consider C: as a strict *system* partition, not to be clogged with typical
>>>>> user data. With LO, and any other software, you can save files in any folder
>>>>> you want on that partition.
>>>>
>>>> User data in C:\Users\<name_of_user>\, system stuff in C:\(more or
>>>> less everything else)\ , what's the problem?
>>>
>>> The advantage is that with user data in D:, you can simply format C:
>>> when the times come. Nothing important gets lost.
>>
>> I have an SSD as my C: with all my user data on drives D and later.
>> Trouble is there are all sorts of software that one downloads (for me
>> the most recent has been the latest Skyrim update) that INSISTS on
>> installing on C which annoys the hell out of me for specifically that
>> reason.
>
>
> If you want to install all your software on D: so you can format C:
> without losing your software, that's wrong. You can't. Except for a
> very rare mostly trivial program, all software has many references in
> C:, in the registry and elsewhere. Regardless of where the program is
> installed, format C: and all those references are gone and the
> programs won't work.

True.

I may store the downloads, which can be considered data anyway.

--
Cheers, Carlos.