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They exist on macOS and Windows but I tend to agree that these directories are not particularly useful for users. Apple software tries to organize files but it

They exist on macOS and Windows but I tend to agree that these directories are not particularly useful for users. Apple software tries to organize files but it's a disaster: iTunes used to download movies to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Movies, now TV.app downloads them to ~/Movies/TV/Media/Movies (!), and videos I shoot on my iPhone end up in ~/Pictures.

pdntspa 4y ago
There has always been a tragedy of the commons with these folders, nobody can agree on where a lot of stuff goes. Should my game saves go in Documents? What about Documents/My Games/Publisher? What about %APPDATA%/Publisher? Hell there's even a few in ~/My Games. Every new game, figuring out where the save data went is an adventure and it's cluttered up every folder it touches. And now for whatever reason everyone is being pushed to put user data in %APPDATA%, which I don't consistently remember how to get to without that shortcut. So who knows! I just looked up the save data location for Subnautica and it is (I shit you not): %AppData%\..\LocalLow\Unknown Worlds\Subnautica\Subnautica\SavedGames
- ablob 4y ago
  LocalLow is just %LocalAppData% for low privillege programs. The Roaming folder (%appdata%) is for platform independent data, and the LocalAppdata folder fo platform specific data. You can find the appdata folder in your userhome "C:Users\YourUserName\AppData", but it's hidden by default if you havent changed it. Edit: clarified what I mean by the Appdata folder
  - pdntspa 4y ago
    I am aware of that, those folders have existed as such since at least Windows XP. But only recently have I noticed consumer software placing fungible user data in there. IIRC at one point you couldn't even open one of the "AppData" homefolder aliases, Explorer would spit out some error message and you'd have to navigate to the hidden folder or key it in manually.

pdntspa 4y ago

There has always been a tragedy of the commons with these folders, nobody can agree on where a lot of stuff goes. Should my game saves go in Documents? What about Documents/My Games/Publisher? What about %APPDATA%/Publisher? Hell there's even a few in ~/My Games. Every new game, figuring out where the save data went is an adventure and it's cluttered up every folder it touches. And now for whatever reason everyone is being pushed to put user data in %APPDATA%, which I don't consistently remember how to get to without that shortcut. So who knows! I just looked up the save data location for Subnautica and it is (I shit you not): %AppData%\..\LocalLow\Unknown Worlds\Subnautica\Subnautica\SavedGames

ablob 4y ago
LocalLow is just %LocalAppData% for low privillege programs. The Roaming folder (%appdata%) is for platform independent data, and the LocalAppdata folder fo platform specific data. You can find the appdata folder in your userhome "C:Users\YourUserName\AppData", but it's hidden by default if you havent changed it. Edit: clarified what I mean by the Appdata folder
- pdntspa 4y ago
  I am aware of that, those folders have existed as such since at least Windows XP. But only recently have I noticed consumer software placing fungible user data in there. IIRC at one point you couldn't even open one of the "AppData" homefolder aliases, Explorer would spit out some error message and you'd have to navigate to the hidden folder or key it in manually.