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Wait what...ok...cool...but...why?
by vokep 7y ago
Wait what...ok...cool...but...why?
- akgoel 7y agoNo ribbon. No special folders, so you always know exactly where you are on disk. Actual buttons, instead of the flat theme.
- recursive 7y agoWindows explorer has gotten a little bit "magical" for my taste. There are all these different kinds of special system folders that invoke different view logic somehow. Sometimes you just want to see the actual file system.
- ygra 7y agoWell, that's because Explorer doesn't navigate the file system, but the shell namespace.
- recursive 7y agoI have never heard of that. I mean, I don't doubt it's true, but I think I just want to see the files usually. But then again, I don't know what that means.
- buckminster 7y agoAs a simple example, you can explore into a zip file as if it were a file system folder. This is really useful, but you're obviously no longer dealing with just plain old file system paths.
- ygra 7y agoAlso things like "My Computer", the recycle bin, the network, phones connected via MTP, etc. It's basically something the actual file system is only a part of, and yes, some file system locations are hidden, some are merged, some are redirected, etc.
- opencl 7y agoMaybe it's for people annoyed at Explorer taking upwards of 30 seconds to display folders with lots of files in them.
- naikrovek 7y agoI have a single folder (no subfolders) with 650,000 files in it, and the Win10 explorer is plenty fast if nothing in that folder is currently changing. Even if a single file access time changes it will spend 20-30 minutes trying to display the change, despite the access time not being displayed for any file. If you open the folder 1 second after the file access time is updated, it's instantaneous, as before. There's good and bad here. NTFS is a HELL of a lot better at handling stupid amounts of files in a folder like this than it used to be. But maybe it could handle a single file attribute change without losing its kind for 30 minutes.
- aargh_aargh 7y agoMaybe the problem is storing so many files all in one directory? /me ducks
- ygra 7y agoNTFS with default settings will actually degrade a fair bit on such a folder. You probably have to disable 8.3 legacy filename generation to make this work (or the usual pattern of using the file name prefix as folder names beneath that folder).