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J. Clarke[_2_]

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> On Sep 28, 6:44*pm, "J. Clarke" > wrote:
> > In article <ad0a8209-f89c-443c-aea5-7866bbf85640
> > @w4g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>, says...
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> > > On Sep 28, 3:30*pm, jack > wrote:
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> > > > Apparently you have. Once upon a time disks were organized in
> > > > directories. That was before M$ decided that 'directory' was too
> > > > difficult a concept for their poor users, and changed it into 'folder'.
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> > > > Maybe it was a good thing though; anybody who starts talking about
> > > > 'folders' gets automatically classified as a 'Default User, no clue about
> > > > computers'.
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> > > I don't give a crap whether they're called directories or folders. *I
> > > do
> > > care passionately that they assume that you want to organize yourself
> > > into "My Documents", "My Pictures", "My Music", etc., like some sort
> > > of child. *"My Toys". *"My Room".
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> > So what default nomenclature would you have used?
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> None. Let each user figure out for him/herself how they prefer to
> organize things. Make it easier to configure applications to follow
> that organization.

What's wrong with putting everything somewhere that keeps a reasonable
degree of separation and then letting the user put it elsewhere later if
he wants to?

Windows doesn't prevent you from putting everything in the root
directory if that is your pleasure, but it doesn't do it by default,
which I think is a good thing.