Why do Adobe products consider root of a PC as "Desktop"?

[dong59613834]

Why do Adobe products navigate with root of a PC as "Desktop"?  A user's Desktop in Windows is typically C:\Users\username\Desktop.  In Adobe navigation, every disk is under Desktop.  Desktop=>C:\ for example is the Adobe concept of a filesystem in Windows.

It's really dumb and amateur.  A just-fix-it stupid thing that should have been fixed long ago.

[Chuck Uebele]

I think a lot has to do with the admin controls Microsoft put on Windows. Adobe used to put a lot of user defined things into the computer's program folder system, but this caused a lot of issues with people on company computers who don't have admin rights and were unable to access many things. This might be the same case with accessing drives, where they need to go through the user's desktop to avoid Microsoft's access limitations.

[SuperMerlin]

Adobe now alter the permissions of the program folder system, an example is the deco folder as it is now read/write for everyone.

[Chuck Uebele]

That's good! Doesn't really affect me now that I'm retired, but it was a huge pain while working.