"My Documents" cluttered by plug-in developers

[DarkStar]

A little rant:

Aren't you niggled by those plug-in developers who insist on creating a folder in your "My Documents", cluttering up the place. I would much prefer to be able to put those folders where I want (without messing about with symbolic links etc) so I can get to them easily.

The culprits here include: Blue Cat Audio, discoDSP, FXpansion, IK Multimedia, iZotope JamStix (Rayzoon), Native Instruments, Reaktor 5 (yes, it gets its own folder, as well as one in Native Instruments), Toontrack and Youlean.

Pack it in.

Aaarrgh

[whyterabbyt]

I create multiple folders inside My Documents for -my- stuff and name them so they're visible. _PERSONAL, _PROJECTS, _ASSETS, that sort of thing.

S'easier that way.

[RSL369]

Here on my system there are many more, actually most of my My Documents folder's content are plugin-related subfolders.

It's actually so bad that I had to make a totally new Documents folder on my HD where I'm putting my actual documents.

I strongly agree that this is a mess and completely unnecessary. That stuff should go to AppData or something like that.

I hope devs will take notice.

[Pictus]

Symbolic Links are your friends!
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/c ... -or-linux/

[chk071]

A little rant:

Aren't you niggled by those plug-in developers who insist on creating a folder in your "My Documents", cluttering up the place. I would much prefer to be able to put those folders where I want (without messing about with symbolic links etc) so I can get to them easily.

In my opinion, putting those folders there is much better than (as some plugins do) putting them into ProgramData, or, worse, in the ProgramFiles/ProgramFiles (x86) folders. Don't have an issue with plugin developers packing the user, or data files into Documents. A lot of other software does that as well.

[chk071]

Symbolic Links are your friends!
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/c ... -or-linux/

I'd be careful with creating symbolic links for the Documents folder... it might cause some softwares to stop working. At least that's what i read. I do that for my Download, Music and Video folders, but not for my Documents folder.

[fmr]

The Documents folder is exactly for that. I usually use the Users/Public/Documents folder for that kind of stuff, and reserve the Users/My User/Documents folder for my own documents. But IMO that's what the Documents folders are there for. I prefer that location than Program Data, although I would prefer that support files (those that are necessary for the programs to work) go into Program Data.

But libraries, preset files, etc., yeah, I wish ANY plug-in builder would follow these rules, instead of having some placing the files inside VstPlugIns, others in Program Data, others in Users/My User/AppData/Roaming, etc.

If you want to have your own documents folders centralized, create a folder with your name inside yout Documents folder, and put them there, or else use the Public Documents folder for the kind of stuff installers want to install.

[Pictus]

Symbolic Links are your friends!
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/c ... -or-linux/

I'd be careful with creating symbolic links for the Documents folder... it might cause some softwares to stop working. At least that's what i read. I do that for my Download, Music and Video folders, but not for my Documents folder.

No problem here(Windows 10).

[acYm]

consider yourself lucky you don't have games in there as well.

[No_Use]

+1 to OP

I prefer my system partition to be just that, for system related stuff. Everything else please let me choose where I wanna put it.

[Amberience]

As far as I'm aware devs have to do that. Because of UAC and virtualization issues. Been like that for years.