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Thanks Char, I have read it, more than once, and it is confused and
confusing because it mirrors the confused and confusing design of
"Library". Specifically:
a) " Libraries don't actually store your items."
But:
b) "If you delete files or folders from within a library, they are also
deleted from their original locations".
Wazzat again?????
If the Library doesn't actually store the items, then why are they
deleted from their original locations when deleted from a Library?
The core concept of "Library" is:
c) "They monitor folders that contain your items, and let you access and
arrange the items in different ways."
I interpret that to mean that a Library is an ordered collection/list of
pointers, a type of shortcut. But they don't behave like shortcuts.
Deleting an item from a Library should mean deleting that pointer, and
nothing else. That's why I think "Library" is badly designed.
I'm glad you have found a style of safe use that works for you.
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Char Jackson
Thank you Char,
I have had this win 7 computer around two weeks and have had all sorts
of problems so far.
In the documents folder from Computer when i open it it still says
"documents Library" i would like to know if that's where documents
should go?
I will look in Windows help.
Mick.
IMO documents should go where _you_ want them to go, not some default
location decided by someone else. However, if a default location is
acceptable, at the very least it should not be in a system folder.
Windows has a built-in, native way of storing records; a hierarchy
hard-wired into the very depths of the OS. You can view this through
Windows Explorer; top down from C: to the lowest level in any tree; and
this propagates into new partitions that you might start.
That is a fixed way of organising data. Call it a database if you will,
but it's not very flexible; you can only search through the lines and
connections made, but to get from one branch of the tree to another you
have to go back up the branch you're on to the top, change to another
one and go down that.
It could be that you have photos at various points on various branches;
and if you want to look at "all photos on my computer" you have to
progress through that fixed hierarchy.
When you start a "library" what you do is link all the chosen folders in
all the different branches directly, so that they can be accessed
quickly through direct links. This doesn't duplicate the contents of
those folders; it merely provides shortcuts to them, all connected in a
chain. You can then handle them more quickly.
But, Windows allows you to add data, change data and delete data in the
folders in both hierarchies; and the contents of those folders will look
exactly the same whether you view them through the native hierarchy of
Win Explorer or the Library view. Delete a folder in either of those
views, and they get deleted in the other.
