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├── Desktop
├── Downloads
├── Google Drive // My defacto Documents folder
│ ├── legal
│ ├── library // ebooks and anything else I read
│ ├── ...
├── Downloads
├── Sandbox // all my repositories or software projects go here
├── Porn // useful when I was a teen, now just contains a text file with lyrics to "Never Gonna Give You Up"
I backup my home folder via Time Machine. I haven't used Windows in years but when I did, I used to do something similar. Always kept a separate partition for games, and software because those could be reinstalled easily, personal data was always kept in my User folder.