Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by lobster_johnson on Sunday March 05, 2017 @06:45PM (#13799625)

My Music etc., are made by Apple. My Music is Garage Band, I believe. My Videos would be iMovie, I believe. I think savegames end up in Documents because they are considered to be "documents" as opposed to app state (which would go under ~/Library/Application Support), but I'm not sure what the Apple guidelines are.

"Microsoft User Data" is apparently from earlier versions of Office. Newer versions will look for it in ~/Library/Preferences, and you can actually move the folder there to get rid of it. [1]

Here [2] is my Documents folder. It's 100% crap that I did not ask for.

As for sharing: This discussion was about macOS, although the same limitation applies to iOS: There's no way to share an iCloud Drive file directly. If you do right-click -> Share -> Email, you get an attachment that you need to send, even though the file is already reachable through the cloud. Every other competitor (Dropbox etc.) adds a "Copy Link" option to the Finder context menu.

[1] https://www.atulhost.com/remove-microsoft-user-data-from-doc...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/PvXbmJk.png

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by comex on Sunday March 05, 2017 @07:29PM (#13799838)

The current version of GarageBand saves projects under ~/Music/GarageBand by default. and iMovie uses an opaque "iMovie Library" in ~/Movies. I'm not sure about older versions, although from a quick Google it seems unlikely to me that it used those directories.

Apple's documentation[1] implies that applications are not supposed to use the documents directory themselves (only when the user selects it in the file picker).

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Ge...

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