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What I get from this whole thread:
In order to neatly separate programs and data, the theoretically functionning design should be moving the special user folders to D, since these are the specially designed folders for the user to store his files. It's not by chance they're called My Music, My Documents and so on.
They are not called My Music Settings, My Documents Settings and so on.
For me it's crazy that anyone who wants to separate progs and data for backup purposes cannot save anything in the user folders specially designed by Windows for this purpose.
It wasn't overthinking or going into too much details for me. Quite the opposite, I wanted to have a Windows that functions as it's designed for. And not having to create duplicate user folders, and having to include them in the library, and having to make them the default save location and so on.
For me this is too many details.
I asked about details because it felt to me it was a heresy to move the user folders. No it's not. That should be the case. It felt to me you were saying it's normal to not save anything in the special user folders. No it's not normal. Windows is designed for putting them there.
NOW.
the only reason why it may cause problems, is because some programs store (or may store) their settings there, while they shouldn't. So it takes a single badly designed software, to force me using Windows differently than how it was designed (= saving my files in MY user folders).
Therefore I totally understand your strategy of keeping the special user folders on C. It's based on real life
I was going into details, but is that wrong when someone wants to understand the real reasons behind a strategy?
Otherwise I would be blindly following advices without understanding the real reasons, and therefore I could misuse the strategy.
I just don't like having to have two music folders, two documents folders, two pictures folders and so on, and one having to be empty of actual music, documents and so on.