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My home folder is it.

  .
  ├── 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.


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