Maybe it's just an issue for those of us with metered Internet and who use Windows as MS recommends, but my Documents folder syncs to the Cloud (default OneDrive configuration), so I can't have various temp files in there wasting my bandwidth for no reason, nor would I ever want ANY company to put a bunch of folders in my Documents directory. "Documents" means documents I have created, not templates or other stuff to be installed by the software vendor.
This is precisely why Windows includes the %appdata% folders: for companies to put files that may be user specific, but managed by the app, not the user. The Documents folder is intended ONLY for files managed and created by the user. I know it's hardly a matter of life and death, but it really rubs me the wrong way when companies act like they are so important they can override the OS to do things their own different (and in my case costly) way.
I've used Corel since the '90s, so I know this is not a new thing (Corel has always annoyed me with the folders it puts in my Documents folder), but the sheer number of folders and the inclusion of a "Working Files" directory (so now 2 new directories in the root of my Documents folder) seems to indicate the problem is getting worse, not better.
Is there any way to easily move ALL of the folders out of the Documents directory permanently and without having to edit over a dozen directories manually via Tools -> Global Options -> File Locations?
Thanks,Colin
Why in God's name would you configure your system like this?
David, I believe that's the textbook example of an unhelpful response (instead of answering the question, you criticize the user for preferences).
However, to your question, here are several answers (TL;DR there are good reasons, so please help with solutions):
Even if none of those reasons are compelling or relevant to you, I hope you can at least see that I have valid reasons in my situation for wanting my systems configured the way they are. I do not intend to suggest that everyone should have the same preferences (but per #3, what Corel is doing as a default is objectively wrong -- allowing users to put it in Documents is fine, but doing it by default is not), just that mine are reasonable enough that there should be an easy solution to stop CDGS from creating not just 1, but 2 top level folders in my Documents directory and requiring manually changing 22 individual directories at last count. Worse, because Corel doesn't sync anything like that, I would need to do the same on every computer. That's 66 directories to redefine!
So, with your question answered probably far more verbosely than you expected, can you please offer some helpful suggestions on how to move those directories? And is there a registry location or INI file or something that stores this, so that after I have moved them on one computer, I can just copy that to the others so I don't have to do repeat across all PC's and every time I upgrade one (with 3 PC's I average about 1.5 PC upgrades every year)?
Thank you,Colin