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Old 01-28-2018, 05:56 PM   #256
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
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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Ah. As far as I know you can't delete any folder the system needs it's blocked by Administrator whoever that is. Just try it, Windows 10 won't let you delete anything it needs.

On my old PC I did the same with personal data. I had two partitions and two drives so a total of four partitions. Drive C had nothing but Windows and all personal files were on Drive E and M and the last Drive J was where I kept my image files which saved my bacon a time or two. Thanks Acronis. It was the first PC I built from scratch. I junked it after I got the Gateway.

The download manager won't work for me. Most Sim downloads are on file storage sites like MediaFire, Box. Dropbox, OneDrive and Simfiles. It's sad but I got over 500 data discs of nothing but Sim files since 2005. I no longer burn discs all newer stuff is on external and laptop. I have a catalog program that helps me find things on all those discs.




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