I hate them for doing that. It drives me up the wall. But yes, I compulsively highlight things, too.
I also save everything to the desktop - in theory, I understand about files and folders and paths and stuff, but in practice, if I can’t see it, I can’t find it so if there’s a chance I’ll need that file in the forseeable future, I save it to the desktop. (Of course I treat physical objects like that, too. So it is just the computerized manifestation of not putting things in their proper place)
You actually save spam? That would be like never flushing your toilet.
I want to butcher whomever came up with the idea of changing the keyboard shortcuts when localizing Microsoft programs.
While using shortcuts is a Good Thing in my book, our society frowns upon murdering morons.
I save stuff to folders in my desktop. My coworkers whose desktops are covered in icons have a problem with this because it means you actually have to gasp click on a folder to find the stuff. The guys from IT Support have a problem with it because they don’t like folders on the desktop. Microchof has a problem with it too, apparently, it periodically wants to clean up “unused icons” (it’s there cos I want it there, damnit, you’re not my mother). I had a problem with my last client because the Pitworthy control freaks did not allow saving to the desktop.
:eek: How much memory you got on that thing?
I’ve saved mine since freaking 1991, but no, NOT the spam. That is seriously weird. Why would you want to preserve the spam?
I never, ever save to the desktop or to folders on it. I don’t even keep the icons visible. I’m somewhat obsessive about keeping things in the proper place. Anything I save off the 'Net, f’instance, goes into the Pix, Dox, of Vids subfolder in my downloads folder, and I sort those into the proper destination once a week.
And me!
click. click. clickclicklclick
I save too many things to the desktop. Not to the degree where it’s full, but random short-use things get saved there and sometimes not deleted. I also have a very large folder of random stuff just called ‘To Organize’ It’s got everything from pictures off my camera, to comic scans, to old projects.
I tend to let my email get really full. I read it, but I don’t deal with it.
I am not familiar with the New York Times online (there’s a well-known bug in their registration cookies that makes it an intolerable annoyance so I seldom go there) but it can’t possibly be worse than what they’ve done at Monster. I like to do a search and then open a plethora of relevant job ads in background windows. I most vehemently DO NOT want a damn popup coming up to hide 5-6 lines’ worth of results to describe the one I am momentarily hovering over, and not going away until I click the damn button in the upper right corner!
Well, the computer is mine. Therefore, if I define “the proper place for this month’s work files” as being “Desktop/June 2009”, it is.