- That development cost could be avoided - by just not doing it (file 
movements), Thorsten.

- If I hadn't lost my backups folder (within the Scenes folder) I wouldn't 
post here at all but smile happily.

- Stupid or not, but why to move a person's file first-hand? That is the 
question. make it optionally.

- Nothing is a reason still, to create program installations inside the "My 
Documents" folder (same as you say that scenes should be now outside of the 
POV-Ray folder).

- How to restore from any backups if all files in folders and sub folders 
have been gone? Let me know, please.





"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message 
news:4aac9b3f$1@news.povray.org...
> Sven Littkowski wrote:
>> Not really an error, but that bad behavior has caused that I LOST ALL MY 
>> POV-RAY SCENE FILES!
>
> I assume you have backups though, so it won't be much of a problem ;-)
>
> Now, it is quite stupid to select the "Program" folder of any program to 
> store your *own* files, even more so if you are using a beta version. The 
> "Program" folder is not your folder to mess with, and the same would 
> happen if say you kept your MS Office documents in the MS Office program 
> folder. Your files belong in the documents folder (and then only in the 
> one belonging to your user's profile or the shared folder!), so restore 
> your backups to that folder and all should be fine.
>
> Sure, POV-Ray's installer could try to keep you from shooting yourself in 
> the foot, but at what development cost should it detect that you keep 
> copying your files back *repeatedly* where they never belonged in the 
> first place?
>
> Thorsten

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