Who at @TomTom thought it was a smart idea to store everything TomTom HOME related on Windows under %USERPROFILE%\Documents filling up document storage (especially hard when you have a cloud backup!) with some 100 gigabytes.

It should have been at level %LOCALAPPDATA% at best.
A friend asked me to help figure out why his cloud storage ran out of space.

TOMTOM used 99% of his document storage space. These are not even documents at all: just map data either downloaded or from the device.

%LOCALAPPDATA% or even better %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow
You should get your Windows developers acquainted to CSIDL and KNOWNFOLDERID.

CSIDL is deprecated but usually has better descriptions of the values than KNOWNFOLDERID: docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/…

Use FOLDERID_LocalAppDataLow or FOLDERID_LocalAppData, not FOLDERID_AppDataDocuments
KNOWNFOLDERID documentation is at docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/… and points to the corresponding CSIDL values, if any.

In addition, newer versions of TomTom HOME should migrate old data to the correct locations.
I know that's hard, but software development is.

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@JerryVermanen Ik heb mijn "maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit" T-Shirt aangetrokken (dank @biancatoeps !)

toeps.nl/shop/product/t…

Daarnaast meld ik het tevoren en bespreek ik kort hoe het bij mij het beste werkt.

Ze zijn daar overigens heel blij mee,

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@JerryVermanen @biancatoeps want velen hebben die angst, maar zeggen het niet (ga er maar vanuit dat 1 op de 3 mensen prikangst heeft, ik zoek zo even een linkje daarover).

Als aanvulling op eerst wat bij mij werkt:

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@JerryVermanen @biancatoeps 1. korte uitleg wat ze gaan doen en hoe
2. mijn voorkeur-arm aangeven
3. vertellen dat ze rond het prikken niet tegen me praten
4. wegkijken van waar ze prikken, focussen op iets anders zodat ik me op ademhaling han richten
5. "ja" als ze kunnen beginnen

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Triggered by @jilles_com (link: next tweet), I was diagnosed with autism 18 months ago coincidentally in the same month my mentally retarded brother got the same diagnosis, followed by training.

I got a vocabulary explaining so many good and bad things in our lives!

#AutismDay
First the promised link, as it is a start of a wonderful thread:

The diagnosis tremendously helped me get through all the treatments and care after my rectum cancer diagnosis 17 months ago.

Yes, these diagnoses were only 1 month apart!

#AutismDay
Being able to explain I'm autistic (as one does not look autistic at all: hello @biancatoeps), the consequences it has in approaching me, how to sense when I get overloaded and what happens when I do were key in getting proper care.

#AutismDay
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@Kareja821 @2unter2 I'm going to reply in English as (see profile) right now too little energy to do this in proper German. Sorry for that.

Some 20 years ago, we brought my mentally retarded brother to a winter holiday where we could stay at my best friends place 30 minutes eastward of Bern.

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@Kareja821 @2unter2 We don't have kids, but I've known since I was 10 that someday I would become responsible for him. So he has been our "big kid" for quite some time now.

By now we know a bit more about his level (IQ slightly less than 50, mental age about 36 months), than we knew back then.

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@Kareja821 @2unter2 So indeed he is a kid in a grown up body, sometimes with remarkable consciousness (he immediately related my intestine problems with what my mom had in the early 1990s).

I digressed (I'm autistic, similar to him), so back to winter holiday early 2000.

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MRI last thursday was a pain: the infusion needle didn't go in well at first, and took a while to settle. In the midst of the MRI the contrast infusion blocked, so part of the MRI had to be redone.

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(Needle) angst and heat radiation made me sweat like crazy and the stoma prolapse moved itself out of my body very far both before and after the procedure.

Monday the results will be clear during my surgery appointment to prepare for friday surgery.

Loads of questions...

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I am still scared for the liver/gallbladder part, but I think I found out why.

If this does not work well, which they will only find out during surgery, I will have far more metastases than detected now, and require at least a new liver soon.

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@archer_rs The utter stupidity is fitting.
@archer_rs Note that I find French a beautiful, but tough to learn language. This has to do both with dyslexia and autism. I still try. Which leads to odd and humorous situations.

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@archer_rs A long time ago, I traveled from the 25th W116 anniversary meeting near Frankfurt to a marchingband gig in Northern France.

(It's 20+ years ago, so I forgot the exact city and Google is not of help, so think a city like Lille, Tourcoing, Roubaix or Valenciennes).

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Too much to let sink in, not just about the hospital results and upcoming surgery, but also about Cindy and @danny_thorpe who just lost their house in the California forest fires, despite it being on the humid side of the Santa Cruz mountains.

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If you are in that area: be careful, be safe.

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The chemo did make the cancer operable. Some tumors have shrunken, a few small ones are invisible, probably because of the chemo-induced hepatic steatosis, and no new tumor were found.

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