Have you ever noticed that some programs always assume where you want to save a file? Or, they assume the directory from which you will open a file?
Somehow, the program’s guess never seems right…
Oh, it may be close, for people who store all their files and data in My Documents or subdirectories of My Documents. I don’t, at home or at work.
At home, I like to store my data in a folder named Data, which usually is not on the C: drive partition. In “my day job,” I store almost all of my data on the department file server.
Programs are often so insensitive to this issue that they do not allow you to pick a default folder that’s different from the programmer’s choice.
Outlook 2007, just like Outlook 2003, aggravates me every time. When I select the function Save As for an email or an attachment, Outlook (at work) selects a special hidden, accessible-only-from-within-Outlook, Temporary Internet Files folder. At home, it selects My Documents.
Notice that particular point — the folder at work is hidden and is not accessible via Windows Explorer, it is a special Outlook file folder that is encrypted. That’s because the office emails are being handled by the Microsoft Exchange mailserver.
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