Im trying to use my documents folder just for documents I create. Im new to Mac and just started using Mac for the first time in my life about a month ago so im still getting use to everything but when I goto my documents folder I notice alot of programs have folders in there and I remember when I deleted one before a program quit working so I had to restore it. Is there a way to move these but allow the programs to still work or are they stuck there?
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Program Folders - Documents
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Your Documents folder should not contain any files but your own. Are you sure you aren't somewhere else?
I think that, to answer this one safely, you'll need to confirm that it is definitely your Documents folder we're talking about , and also, which applications are putting files in there and what are they?
Well DVDFab is storing log and temp files, Blizzard is storing starcraft 2 which is storing gamelogs, accounts, variables...Solidworks has I think its install files from windows and Parallels has "Windows 7.pvm" What is a pvm file?
Re: MS Office (2004 at least)...yes it should...but it just dumps the user data in Documents. Always has AFAIK.
I checked the PVM and its actually Windows 7, 32 GB so I guess thats just the OS...If I move the stuff is it going to update all the access commands so it will find it?
Parallels, Sim City, and numerous others also create a "resource" folder in the Documents folder. I guess the developers decided that app info related to YOU should be stored in YOUR docs folder.