The "USER" folder

[(Fragger)]

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

 

[63]

There are hundreds of User folders with Windows.

 

[koopa]

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.

 

[(Fragger)]

There are hundreds of User folders with Windows.

Having to do with HL2?

 

[Bobcat]

I don't understand why some people have a username as their user folder while others have an email account instead?

 

[Hectic Glenn]

i found '[email protected]' the best one its just combining the email and the fact you put it in their in one! magic!

 

[Bobcat]

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 ?

 

[azz0r]

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.

 

[(Fragger)]

i found '[email protected]' the best one its just combining the email and the fact you put it in their in one! magic!

...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?
:upstare:

 

[(Fragger)]

Log in name= you
you = user

 

[Bobcat]

Ignorance is bliss, or so I've heard...

 

[destrukt]

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

 

[Ennui]

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.