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Originally Posted by Blossom
You're on Windows 7 aren't you? I'm on Windows 10. It doesn't have that many folders. I mean folders like in my screen shot attached. Saved Games, Intel, Searches, Favorites, Links, contacts. They are useless to me. I don't use them. Windows 10 by default doesn't index the appdata folder. It only indexes the personal data by default and email. I removed the email. I don't use it.
I download a ton of stuff from the internet and Sim creators like to name their files in sentences. Sometimes I catch it sometimes I don't. I need to remember how to find files that exceed limitations because in some parts of the world operating systems don't suffer from filename character limits it seems.
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My screen shot was taken on my primary machine which runs Windows 10, version 1703. What you see is the xplorer˛ file manager where I show hidden and system folders and files. I hide them in File Explorer, which I use for casual file management tasks when I'm more likely to make 'fat-finger' blunders.
I don't use the folders you mention either, but I don't delete them because I never know when something might need them. I keep an eye on the contents counts, if one of them should ever be non-zero I'd investigate why.
The reason you don't see Documents, Pictures etc, is because I relocated them via the Properties->Location tab to a separate physical drive when I first installed Windows 7 in 2009.
Until recently I was downloading up 60-70 files a day, but not via the browser, instead via Free Download Manager, it has the ability to save downloads into different folders based on file extension and source (I trained it to use sub-folders within the normal Downloads folder). If Firefox crashes, it can carry on regardless. I hooks into the major browsers for the purpose of initiating a download.
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