What are "Documents" in the default folder?

What exactly is supposed to go in there?

Like Music and Videos are obvious, but what do you consider a
"document"?


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rasmasyean

Anything.
Text, photos, ISO files, word docs, excel, zip files, installers, etc.
Whatever you want to save.
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"rasmasyean" wrote:

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> What exactly is supposed to go in there?
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> Like Music and Videos are obvious, but what do you consider a
> "document"?
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> rasmasyean
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Actually, music and videos are not generally considered documents, that's
what the music and videos folders are for. Documents are Word, Excel, PDF,
word perfect, etc.

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"rasmasyean" <> wrote in message
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> What exactly is supposed to go in there?
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> Like Music and Videos are obvious, but what do you consider a
> "document"?
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> rasmasyean

rasmasyean wrote:
> What exactly is supposed to go in there?
>
> Like Music and Videos are obvious, but what do you consider a
> "document"?
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>

Oxford concise English dictionary defines a document as piece of
written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or
evidence, or that serves as an official record.

ie. a .txt file

also keep in mind... for the most part you are the "King of your PC" if you
want to store music in the document folder, pictures in the Video folder,
pdf's in the music folder, or like my wife... Just save every friggin' thing
she does to the desktop, you can. Other than some restrictions on system
folders and other users folders you can do whatever you like. The default
folders are set-up that way as a guide that theoretically fits most users
general needs.


"rasmasyean" <> wrote in message
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> What exactly is supposed to go in there?
>
> Like Music and Videos are obvious, but what do you consider a
> "document"?
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> rasmasyean

Does it matter what kind of files you put in each folder?
For example, will it "behave" differently with search or previews or
any OS type of operations?


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rasmasyean

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:21:31 -0500, rasmasyean
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>What exactly is supposed to go in there?
>
>Like Music and Videos are obvious, but what do you consider a
>"document"?

Any of your data. Not smart to put anything there though.

Why not?

1. It's stupid. It's the obvious place a hacker would first look.
2. It clutters up and slows down your primary root drive (C).
3. If you system partition crashes you also risk your data.

If you have more than one hard drive, even just a second partition on
one drive set up your data folder structure there.

"Ringmaster" <> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:21:31 -0500, rasmasyean
> <> wrote:
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>>What exactly is supposed to go in there?
>>
>>Like Music and Videos are obvious, but what do you consider a
>>"document"?
>
> Any of your data. Not smart to put anything there though.
>
> Why not?
>
> 1. It's stupid. It's the obvious place a hacker would first look.

No - Ringmaster Can't Figure Out How To Get The Data Back Because His
Computer Is So ****ed Up He Can't Even Copy Two Files Without A Problem.
Just FYI.

> 2. It clutters up and slows down your primary root drive (C).

Bullshit. Just FYI


> 3. If you system partition crashes you also risk your data.

Finally. One Piece Of Truth. I'll Bet This Was By Accident. Just FYI.

>
> If you have more than one hard drive, even just a second partition on
> one drive set up your data folder structure there.

I don't put anything in there on Vista.
If you ever did a reinstall, Vista recreates the default folders and any
data in them goes POOF.
My daughter reinstalled Vista without formatting (thinking it was like an XP
repair install that left data intact) and lost several hundred pictures, mp3
files and text documents.
"rasmasyean" <> wrote in message
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> What exactly is supposed to go in there?
>
> Like Music and Videos are obvious, but what do you consider a
> "document"?
>
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> rasmasyean

When reinstalling, Vista puts all the old files in a directory called
Windows.000

Don't know what happened in your case

NotEvenMe wrote:
> I don't put anything in there on Vista.
> If you ever did a reinstall, Vista recreates the default folders and any
> data in them goes POOF.
> My daughter reinstalled Vista without formatting (thinking it was like an XP
> repair install that left data intact) and lost several hundred pictures, mp3
> files and text documents.
> "rasmasyean" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> What exactly is supposed to go in there?
>>
>> Like Music and Videos are obvious, but what do you consider a
>> "document"?
>>
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>> rasmasyean
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