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Documents folder: Do you use it?
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I also keep things like my Mori, Omnioutliner files etc in the Documents folder.. as well as PDF copies of all my Apple application manuals... these go in my Apple folder. Also in there is a textedit file with a bunch of cool terminal commands I like as I often forget them...
I've just started messing about with Quicksilver more. One of the things I picked up on Merlin Manns 43 Folders website is appending text to any file using Quicksilver. So I have a scratch file within my documents file. I often add to-do's, links etc to this file without even having to open it using Quicksilver. Then I will check this file at the end of each day to process whatever I have added to it..
I've just started messing about with Quicksilver more. One of the things I picked up on Merlin Manns 43 Folders website is appending text to any file using Quicksilver. So I have a scratch file within my documents file. I often add to-do's, links etc to this file without even having to open it using Quicksilver. Then I will check this file at the end of each day to process whatever I have added to it..
Thanks for the mini-review BV.
I was torn between Tiger or another stick of RAM, but I'll probably do the OS update first. I'm never an early adopter of OS updates either, and with Panther being so stable I was rather loth to change until things were mature on the Tiger end.
I really use my desktop as my main storage space, but I tend to dump a lot of things in the Documents folder because that's so often the default location.
I was torn between Tiger or another stick of RAM, but I'll probably do the OS update first. I'm never an early adopter of OS updates either, and with Panther being so stable I was rather loth to change until things were mature on the Tiger end.I really use my desktop as my main storage space, but I tend to dump a lot of things in the Documents folder because that's so often the default location.
I've been using the documents folder as the default place for documents with numerous subfolders for various categories and organization purposes.
Well, that's what I was doing, but now with Tiger's Spotlight, it looks like I can find my docs quicker without ever visiting the documents folder and it's subs, so I may have to rethink whether it's all still necessary at this point.
Well, that's what I was doing, but now with Tiger's Spotlight, it looks like I can find my docs quicker without ever visiting the documents folder and it's subs, so I may have to rethink whether it's all still necessary at this point.
I used to put everything on my desktop, but then I read something about OS X treating desktop items differently such that it *potentially* uses more system resources to keep it there. I always hated having the cluttered desktop anyway, so it was a good reason to change.
All the time. But I only keep things in there that I consider documents (mainly Word and PDF). But you are right a lot of programs like to save there by default.
weg said:
Then where exactly do you put these documents? On the desktop? Documents is the only non-media folder in the home directory that makes sense to place these files.
And having a logical, hierarchical file system is still very necessary with Spotlight in its current state.
I try to put my text files into my documents folder, yet my desktop usually end up filled with manuals, documents, pictures and alike.
Before last time I reinstalled my user, I could hardly see my desktop, even though I moved files into a folder called "junk", with several sub folders called "junk"....
Before last time I reinstalled my user, I could hardly see my desktop, even though I moved files into a folder called "junk", with several sub folders called "junk"....
All my personal files are in the Documents folders. I've got about 20 folders of just stuff in there, like software, school, avatars* , etc.
*idk why I have this folder... I'll never change my avatar... ever.
, etc.*idk why I have this folder... I'll never change my avatar... ever.
Pretty much same here. When my desktop gets completely full 'till the point when it's covering my HD, I sort it all out and put it in my HD.gekko513 said:
I lost a 5 page report by accidentally deleting a file, i do not recommend this method.
I am a very obedient OSX user. I have everything where Steve told me to have it and as such, my documents are in Documents.
mad jew said:I am a very obedient OSX user. I have everything where Steve told me to have it and as such, my documents are in Documents.
Me too. As hard as it might be to believe, my documents are stored in, well, you guessed it, the Documents folder.
In fact, if the Documents folder didn't exist, I would probably create one, since that would be the logical place where I would want to store my documents. To further surprise everyone, I store my music in the Music folder, my photos in the Photos folder, and (wait for it, yes...) my movies in the Movies folder.
Yeah, I like living on the edge...
~Shard~ said:To further surprise everyone, I store my music in the Music folder, my photos in the Photos folder, and (wait for it, yes...) my movies in the Movies folder.
Me too.
Can I make a guess as to where you keep your dirty filthy donkey porn too?
mad jew said:Me too.
Can I make a guess as to where you keep your dirty filthy donkey porn too?
Yes - and much to my dismay, OS X did not have one of these folders set up upon install like the others... tsk, tsk tsk...
Blue Velvet said:Am I alone by being strangely repulsed by the Documents folder or do others feel the same way?
I have a Data folder in my home directory that contains folders like "Code" "Documents", "Eclipse Workspaces", "Quicken", "Unworked Images", etc. Then within each of these category folders I create separate folders to group files. That is, within "Documents" I have "Framemaker", "Illustrator", "Images", "Paper Submissions", etc.
But then, I also avoid using /Applications for any user-installed applications unless the app refuses to install elsewhere. I have my drive partitioned so that the first partition is my install of OS X and Developer tools. The second partition holds several folders that I use for user applications and other user installed things such as reference documents and fonts, these folders are named "_Applications", "_Documents", "_Fonts", "_Network", "_Utilities".
This second partition also holds my Users directory after I moved that off the boot partition. With this setup, any reinstall just affects the first partition then once I point the new install at the Users directory everything is done and I still have the majority of my user installed apps available.
My Documents folder contains three subfolders: Desktop Temp 1, Desktop Temp 2, and Desktop Temp 3, each of them created about three months apart. I create a new one every time icons start stacking on my Desktop by just selecting everything and dragging it in.
By the way, how do you hide the HD icons on your desktop?
By the way, how do you hide the HD icons on your desktop?