Stop putting crap in my Documents folder!!

[thendis]

Am I the only one getting really frustrated with applications adding folders to the Documents folder?

I just finished doing a fresh install of OS X and opened my Docs folder to add my folders only to find - to my horror - four extra folders: "AdobeStockPhotos" and "Updater" from AdobeCS, "Microsoft User Data" from MS Office, and "Roxio Converted Items" from Toast!!!

I'm a very anal person and I like my folders ogranised *perfectly*, so this sort of thing really irritates me.

Am I the only one?

[Ashka]

I just made another Documents folder for me and left the main one for the software.
Don't sweat the little stuff :-)

[Randman]

The indignity.

[fjdouse]

I have a mini, so I bought an external drive and partitioned it, one partition is just for docs, and I do what Ashka does basically, and leave the other docs folder to do what it wants.

[btoth]

I do find it annoying, it's a very Windows thing to do (my My Documents folder is full of Adobe and Microsoft crap). There's a reason there's ~/Library/Application Support/ it's for all those folders that you never have a reason to look at that don't need to be in your Documents folder (or even in your root Home folder for that matter).

[TommyWillB]

Well I have to say that I've been using OS X so long that I've become quite acostomed to this behavior...

...but the more I think about it the more I totally agree with thendis. If it truely is the users documents, then nothing else should ever be put there.

Currently this folder has a ton of stuff I did not put there and also beleive belong in ~/Library/Application Support:

• Acrobat User Data
• AppleWorks User Data
• iChats
• Maxprog
• MCPref
• Microsoft User Data
• Microsoft User Data.old
• Mozilla
• NewRootApplet.java
• Office Projects
• Palm
• Retrospect_backup_schedules
• Virtual PC
• Virtual PC List
• Virtual PC Scripts

[Mikuro]

This has bugged me ever since OS 8. But I've just kept my old habit I got from System 7: I use my own "Documents" folder that lives on my desktop. I never use the default Documents folder at all.

My entire organization structure is desktop-based, not Home-based. Coming from System 7, it just makes more sense to me that way, although OS X clearly doesn't want to be treated that way (click on the Finder in the Dock, and what happens? The freakin' Home folder pops up!).

It's especially annoying since there's no real rhyme or reason to what goes there as opposed to the Preferences or Application Support folders.

So yes, I too have been forced to surrender that folder to the barbarian apps.

[TommyWillB]

Originally Posted by Mikuro

...although OS X clearly doesn't want to be treated that way (click on the Finder in the Dock, and what happens? The freakin' Home folder pops up!)....

You can change that in the Finder Preferences...