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Both of you have right and both of you are wrong.
Type in console fs_ and click tab. Check if those variables you have set correctly.

well i checked n seems all fine...but i don't get why is it wrong as u say...im installing quake folders since 10 years almost, various mods, various point releases etc, had millions of q3 folders all over my pc partitions etc, never any of them made any folder anywhere, the only thing that was making folders in app was ioquake and quakelive ofc, coz different engines. now im thinkin of something, mby can be who installs the game got this? coz i never installed it, just i download it alredy extracted, but still sounds weird...dunno