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Originally Posted by twowheels
Moreover, I go one step further. I have separate "users" for various files that I want to keep and ensure that I don't accidentally mess them up. My music, photos, long term archived documents (e.g. scans of important stuff), etc all have a different "user" that owns them, and my regular user account has read-only permissions to them.
If I want to manage those files I have to change to that user to make changes -- this way my day to day user cannot accidentally mess them up, either via a brain-dead mistake, or via a buggy or malicious application.
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I have back-ups for that purpose. Constantly logging in and out with different users is about the most clumsy way I can imagine managing one's files. Of course, I'm on Windows. Possibly Linux is different.