Now finally we start slowly to get somewhere, this is a begin...

Also, POV-Ray should be smart enough to recognize that many files inside 
that Scene folder are user-made (not inside a list of POV-Ray sample files).

Many other smart installations, or let's say, de-installations recognize 
easily that there are files in a folder which don't belong to the program 
itself (user-made files).

Location of scne files:
Since the earliest versions of POV-Ray, I kept the scene files inside a sub 
folder of the program folder. I liked to keep that good old tradition. I had 
one time a virus, which destroyed all files and sub folders within the "My 
Documents" folder. So of course I don't keep relevant, important or 
sensitive files there. And I also came accross, some time ago, to a Trojan 
Horse which attempted to spy out what files someone has in the "My 
Documents" folder, as well as their contents (of some file types, like Word 
documents). Looking at the Assembler code of that Trojan Horse showed up 
this. I studied programming.



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> 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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