Overview & help with drupal files and folders on Win 7 I am a newbie. Please forgive me if this is a dumb question.

I'm trying to wrap my brain around what is Drupal and how it works.

I installed Acquia Dev Desktop successfully on my Win 7 computer. I want to make sure that I backup all files and folders, but have discovered that Drupal/Acquia is scattered just about everywhere on my hard drive. I found the following (where "Sam" is my Win 7 username).


C:\Program Files (x86)\DevDesktop
C:\Users\Sam\Sites
C:\Users\Sam.acquia
C:\Users\Sam.drush


Have I missed any locations? Why is everything not consolidated in one folder? It would make life much easier!

If this is not the proper forum for dumb questions please tell me a better place to post.

Thanks!
The confusion is probably resulting from things that differ from the Windows environment compared against the traditional multi-user LAMP environment that Drupal is usually built against.

To explain what those directories are in the order you listed them:


The DevDesktop application code
Your sites you're managing with Acquia
Acquia application configurations
Drush application configurations


This data is separated mostly to accommodate a multi-user environment. So that...


All the data for the DevDesktop application is isolated so multiple users can use the app.
The sites you manage are separate from other users.
Your Acquia application configurations are separate from other users (e.g. your login info).
You Drush application configuration is separate from other users (e.g. your site aliases).