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The hierarchy model means that they're not suitable for some uses that the technology could support. If I have a picture of my family member and my dog, I don't
by offices 3y ago
The hierarchy model means that they're not suitable for some uses that the technology could support. If I have a picture of my family member and my dog, I don't want to put them exclusively in a 'family member' folder or 'dog' folder. I ideally want a hard link in both, but that's not trivial. This sounds silly - people generally name their folders by event rather than like tags - but that's a consequence of the interface rather than an inherent quality of storage. In reaction to this & us rapidly having more personal media and files, we're now seeing a shift towards interfaces that treat the entire filesystem as a flat, searchable index - including indexing that recognises the family members and pets.
- jstanley 3y ago> I ideally want a hard link in both, but that's not trivial Yes it is. First put the file in one folder, and then make the hardlink in the other.
- offices 3y agoTrivial step 1: open Powershell with elevated permissions.
- jstanley 3y agoI just looked it up, and while you apparently do need evelated permissions to create a symlink on Windows (???), I think you don't need elevated permissions to make a hard link. So really your step 1 is "open PowerShell". So the only reason it's not "trivial" is because you don't happen to always have a terminal window open. Personally I do almost all of my file management from the shell.
- offices 3y agoTerminal windows are not well integrated into things like file pickers and download windows. Even if power users use them, they're not used by most people and aren't part of the common, low-friction UX.
- makeitdouble 3y agoYes. I see gmail's approach of maskerading tags as folders as really genius. It's simple enough, until the user hits the limits, start wanting more and and discoves that there's no limit and they can actually do more.