@boomzilla said in Your files are right where you left them:
Your Steam games all live in a folder called “steamapps” — when was the last time you clicked on that?
Erm... couldn't say for sure, but I'm guessing sometime within the last month or so.
I mean, how else would I edit config files, tweak mods, and do all that stuff.
The annoying part of modern apps hiding actual file locations is that it's often a bitch to find where some specific part of the installation may be hiding. The bastard responsible for the existence of the AppData folder needs to be hunted down and shot.
ETA:
Others, meanwhile, believe it’s professors who need to adjust their thinking. Working with befuddled students has convinced Garland that the “laundry basket” may be a superior model. She’s begun to see the limitations of directory structure in her personal life; she uses her computer’s search function to find her schedules and documents when she’s lost them in her stack of directories. “I’m like, huh ... I don’t even need these subfolders,” she says.
Even professors who have incorporated directory structure into their courses suspect that they may be clinging to an approach that’s soon to be obsolete. Plavchan has considered offering a separate course on directory structure — but he’s not sure it’s worth it. “I imagine what’s going to happen is our generation of students ... they’re going to grow up and become professors, they’re going to write their own tools, and they’re going to be based on a completely different approach from what we use today.”
His advice to fellow educators: Get ready. “This is not gonna go away,” he says. “You’re not gonna go back to the way things were. You have to accept it. The sooner that you accept that things change, the better.”
Structured programming was a mistake! Swampy had the right idea all along.