atw: Re: File paths
- From: "Paul Brice" <brice.paul@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:39:10 +1000
You should never save anything to a local hard drive - not if you value it
at all. Most workplaces provide network storage and with external hard
drives of gargantuan capacity costing microscopic dollars, there's no reason
to entrust anything to a local drive.
Anyone who's suffered a Windows breakage or complete hard drive failure will
know what a drama data loss can be. At the very least you should back up to
an external source.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Kathy Bowman <
Kathy.Bowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I must have been dreaming I was at home...
> I use My Documents on my home PC, but at work I always use folders on a
> network drive, because they are backed up and secure.
> Kath
>
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> *From:* austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Bob Trussler
> *Sent:* Monday, 22 September 2008 2:49 PM
> *To:* austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* atw: Re: File paths
>
> Dear Dinosaur,
> I too, am finding the new world order a bit strange at times.
>
> In the Government workplaces, My Documents is frowned upon. This is
> because it is on the C drive and therefore
>
> - not backed up,
> - if the PC crashes all is lost.
> - it is not considered secure.
>
> Users there must store their documents in the network on either a personal
> drive or in the shared drive for their project or team.
>
> Do your baby dinos realise that they can make (or create if they are gods)
> lots of sub-folders under My Documents, so that they have more than just My
> Music and My Pictures.
>
> Bob Trusslersaur
>
>
>
>
> 2008/9/22 Christine Kent <christine_kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Guys
>>
>> Another seemingly odd question relating to the new world order of
>> Microsoft as it relates to base entry level computer users and how they work
>> with files.
>>
>> This time, file structure.
>>
>> As old timers, we create our own files structures under c:\ - or at least
>> I do.
>> As corporate workers, we create files structures according to some
>> corporate specification on some network drive or other, or in some DMS.
>>
>> But for the computer sub-literate, the Windows XP world of folders starts
>> with Documents and Settings, My Documents, and the Vista world of folders
>> starts with Users, Documents etc. They happily access these from the Start
>> Menu, ever using a window called Windows Explorer.
>>
>> The real world – that is, users of home computers and people training in
>> or being trained by our low level education system – only understand/s My
>> Documents or Users. They have no idea they can pick a location on C:\
>> drive, or that these mythical User or Documents structures are actually on
>> C:\ drive somewhere. They feel clever if they learn to put a folder under
>> My Documents.
>>
>> My overlapping questions.
>>
>> Are techos in corporate starting to use the Microsoft system to define
>> user profiles?
>> Is the world generally adapting to the Microsoft virtual view of their
>> virtual universe?
>> Are you using Documents on your home computer?
>> Are your kids using Documents on their home or school computers?
>> Up until now I have always taught people to use C:\ drive. Am I being a
>> dinosaur?
>>
>> Christine
>>
> --
> Bob Trussler
> Phone 0418 661 462
>
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