The "USER" folder

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I see posts everywhere referring to the "[email protected]", "whateveryoursteamname", "xxxx", "name" folder. It gets confusing, to say the least. Couldn't we just call it the "user" folder? It would be easier to understand, IMO. In all the readmes for my skins, I ask people to unzip to their "user" folder and it seems to work, since nobody has ever asked me what that folder is or where to find it.
Just a thought. :E
 
There are hundreds of User folders with Windows.
 
Wouldn't work because nobody would know what you meant. Maybe if Steam added a 'Open your User folder' command it would be a good idea.
 
I don't understand why some people have a username as their user folder while others have an email account instead?
 
Actually, now I thought it through, the most correct term would be "Login", seeing as it's the login people use when signing on to steam.

No ?
 
Valve changed the ways things worked about 3 months ago.

Steam started installing itself in c:\Valve instead of the program files, and the email address wasnt used for the user folder anymore.

Good moves I feel.
 
Hectic Glenn said:
i found '[email protected]' the best one :P its just combining the email and the fact you put it in their in one! magic!

Bobcat said:
...some people have a username as their user folder while others have an email account...
It's right above your post. How could you miss it?
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Bobcat said:
I don't understand why some people have a username as their user folder while others have an email account instead?

depends on when you registered, whether your username is a email accnt, or just a name.

i registered ages ago [when you had to use the batch file] and i have an email, but they updated how they handled it.

there was speculation on whether they'd let the people with the email address change their username, but i don't care ;)
 
those of us who registered a while ago have our usernames as our email addresses because thats how steam used to do it. now you choose a username, apparently.
 
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