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by projektfu
3 days ago
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> Beginners quickly got lost in all of the folders and other users had a lot of trouble deciding whether they were looking at the actual file system and its files or just links to actual files. TBH, I often have no idea whether anything is really a file/directory or some fake thing in Explorer, and this aspect has gotten worse over the years. Now they make it hard for users to find their home folder and present a bunch of virtual things that are confusing. Home, Gallery, Music, Videos - all virtual apparently. Moving things into OneDrive that used to be in the home folder. The Downloads folder, if clicked from the side panel, doesn't have a path, etc. |
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Huh? I agree with you that in general it's a mess. (found it fascinating that the hierarchy that Explorer shows is technically not the file system - It's its own thing which works more like the unified directory tree in Linux, complete with mount points and different "virtual file systems". The real file system is only a part of it)
But the Gallery, Music, Videos etc subfolders are AFAIK ordinary folders that just have custom icons and localized names. For reasons I don't understand, Microsoft would like users to forget the home folder exists and only work with those preassigned directories. But that's just a convention and a bunch of UI nudges. The home folder is still there and can be used without problems.
At least that was the case before the aggressive push for OneDrive started. They might have changed it since then...