On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 09:16:00 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2015-07-10 11:18 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
[...]
Yes, thanks. I've conquered the complexities of 'libraries' and they
seem to be just grouped shortcuts.

Er, not quite. What put me off them was that there were reports of
losing actual files when deleting a library item. It seems that the
lowest level of a folder tree within a library is not shortcuts, but the
actual filenames. If Libraries were purely grouped shortcuts, then that
would not happen. AFAIK, this bug has not been fixed, but since I don't
use Libraries, I don't know for sure.

Then if I just make shortcuts to desired destinations, could these
shortcuts be made the library items? Presumably this would prevent
accidental erasure of the files themselves?



So be careful.

IMO, MS missed an opportunity with Libraries. What I'd like to see is
using Search to generate folders full of shortcuts. _That_ would be
extremely useful. As it is, "[to] create a library, name it something
(perhaps, "Family Photos"), and then tell Windows which far-flung
folders your new library should include." I don't have "far-flung
folders", they're all nicely grouped in usefully labelled folder trees.

Eg, for images I have Camera -- Year -- Month --
SomeEvent/SomeTopic/Etc. Many events repeat year to year. So it would be
nice for the Library to generate a folder for SomeEvent, creating both
the shortcuts to the folders (as at present) and also the shortcuts to
the images inside them. And if I happen to Copy or Move shortcut(s) from
one folder to another, Library should automagically Copy or Move the
actual file(s) in the actual folder(s). But Delete should work _only_ on
the shortcuts, never on the actual files. There is an "Arrange by"
feature, but AFAICT, it merely sorts the entries.

See?

I do sometimes use Documents etc as temporary storage, eg, for any
content that I'll discard after reading.