Comment by ealexhudson
4 years ago
I wish they did "User Files" instead of "Users" too, because so much software breaks on the home area having a space in it.
Not least, it makes writing scripts for various shells and getting the quoting rules right an absolute pain as well...
They used to. The folder was called `Documents and Settings` until Win7.
"Documents and Settings" still exists on Windows 10, as a soft link to "Users".
You know, this makes me wonder.. tangentially speaking- I wonder how hard it would be to rearrange the folder structure in linux so that I have something like this:
/Users/{root, user0, user1, ... }...
/System/{Logs, Apps/{opt, container, ...}, Temp, Conf ...}...
/Devices/{Mount, sda, sdb, null ...}...
/Boot/...
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Yeah, it's a junction point, but it's also useless. Open a command box and CD to it; now what? A file explorer and set it as the directory, again, now what?
I know this is completely tangential. But you can Win-R and just type Documents and it will load your documents folder. Same for downloads, pictures, temp (windows temp), and I'm sure many others.
Works from File-Open dialogs and address bars and even in the command prompt you can even do "explorer documents".
Nothing says progress like renaming all your paths.
In the Win95 era, it was "C:\My Documents".
Huh, spaces. There's way too much software, especially on Windows, that breaks when there are Cyrillic characters in a path. I'll let you guess how I found out.
I had a really odd one last year where a Grave I ( well known brand name) got converted by office/excell into a Double Grave I.
The double grave I is used by some obscure orthodox religionious texts
A friend had the username "Rubén" and jfc it broke everything other than windows itself xD
The problem isn't the Cyrillic or the é but the fact that Windows lets you put those characters in file names in non-Unicode encodings which will create sequences of bytes which are invalid UTF-8. It's 2021, FFS, stop using legacy encodings.
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If you have a username with your full name (plus point if you have special characters in your name), you will get the whole deal with shitty programs. I’m not sure if it’s me, but there were cases I simply could not use a program installed in such a location, to the point where at my previous (admittedly shitty) workplace, we often installed software in a root location…