Extra Zotero directory within AppData\Roaming
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In any case, I'm not sure why you'd change this — you'd just make it different from the documentation and from where an uncustomized build would look, for no reason.
This "happen" is unfortunate, because if you actually followed the convention, that would be something like "Digital Scholarship\Zotero". No confusion, no unnecessary questions.
Zotero is its own project within CDS, and it's also the name of the software in question. Again, there could be another piece of software from Zotero with a different name, and that would also go under the first "Zotero". We don't coordinate development with other CDS projects, and we're not going to start sharing file installation paths and risking conflicts because one person is unhappy with the path to the profile directory.
I assure you that adding the name of a business entity that almost no one recognizes to Zotero's profile path would not result in less confusion.
May I have the right to reply when I please? May I have the right to decide what is relevant to me and what I found confusing? Thanks.
> Zotero is its own project within CDS, and it's also the name of the software in question. Again, there could be another piece of software from Zotero with a different name, and that would also go under the first "Zotero".
It directly contradicts what you said earlier, i.e. "one is the organization". There is no organization here.
> We don't coordinate development with other CDS projects, and we're not going to start sharing file installation paths and risking conflicts because one person is unhappy with the path to the profile directory.
I did not ask you to do anything. I know very well that the makers of moronic decisions are most stubborn.
> I assure you that adding the name of a business entity that almost no one recognizes to Zotero's profile path would not result in less confusion.
Oh yeah, let's have Zotero/Zotero then. What I can assure of is that there is no such moronic double names in any Windows software that I ever met.