clipka wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich schrieb:
>> I would recommend reading a bit on he web how to keep backups. A copy 
>> in the same folder, on the same harddisk, or the same system for that 
>> matter is not a backup. It is a space-wasting copy.
> 
> Well, not necessarily: It may also be a poor man's version archieval 
> system. Still not a backup however.
> 
>>> - Stupid or not, but why to move a person's file first-hand? That is 
>>> the question. make it optionally.
>>
>> Because they never were your files! All what happened is that 
>> POV-Ray's *own* folder was moved, and you happened to be storing your 
>> data there where it did not belong.
> 
> What I do concede to Sven is that the folder being named "scenes" gives 
> no hint that this is supposed to be only the samples scene. Plus, I'm 
> not sure but I think when POV-Ray is first started up, both its "Open 
> File..." and "Save As..." paths default to that very folder.

I agree that the naming of that folder, rooted in the 8 character DOS length 
limit is not ideal any more. Probably it should be named "Samples Scenes" or 
"Example Scenes" or if it should be shorted just "Examples".

	Thorsten

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