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To be honest, I don't know either because I avoided them since the first time they got introduced. Those folders is precisely Microsoft acknowledging there is
by j1elo 5y ago
To be honest, I don't know either because I avoided them since the first time they got introduced.
Those folders is precisely Microsoft acknowledging there is something wrong about the files-first approach, but as usual, in trying to make it more approachable, they ended up with an even more confusing solution, virtual folders that try to abstract the actual filesystem hierarchy with some virtual collection folders based on file types.
- CRConrad 5y ago> Those folders is precisely Microsoft acknowledging there is something wrong about the files-first approach, but as usual, in trying to make it more approachable, they ended up with an even more confusing solution, virtual folders that try to abstract the actual filesystem hierarchy with some virtual collection folders based on file types. I don't think those are "virtual collection folders based on file types"; they're just virtual folders (=directories) that point to two (or more?) actual folders (=directories). AFAICR you can save .JPG or .PNG files in other folders, and they won't show up in any magic "Pictures" folder; you need to save into one of the actual "Pictures" folders -- your personal one, or the shared/public/all users (WETF it's called) one -- for that to happen. But yeah, it feels like the "solution" is at least as confusing as the problem was to begin with.
- j1elo 5y agoYou're right, of course. I was talking from memory, it's been years since I haven't seen those folders.