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by didgetmaster 5y ago
I apologize for the missing download file (DidgetsBeta.zip) on the website www.Didgets.com It seems the latest upload failed, but I fixed it.
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
I actually started coding a way to automatically extract EXIF data from all imported jpeg files and automatically attach them as tags to the file. That way you could search for photos taken with a specific camera, or only photos where the f
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
Cleaning data for tags is about the same as cleaning data in a relational database table. Here is a demo video of how Didgets does that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqkNeU1LYEQ Just think of each defined tag as one of t
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
You assume that there are fewer bank statements than 2002 files in your argument. What if you loaded in a million bank statements in 2005 but only created a few thousand files in 2002? With Didgets, I can tell how many objects have each tag
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
I agree. Unfortunately, right now the 'well structured relational database' is completely separate from the file system. Didgets was designed to combine the two into a single coherent system so that you can't update one witho
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
I use the name Didget (short for Data Widget) because it encompasses much more than file data. A 'File Didget' is an object where its data stream has unstructured data and is unmanaged by the system. But there are other Didgets (S
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
I'm sorry if the article came off as such. I meant to start a discussion about the shortcomings of filesystems and get people to look at possible alternatives. I think what I built (so far) has some great features, but it is entirely p
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
The article was never meant to fully describe the Didget system or all the issues that went into its design. One of the reasons I started working on it years ago was because Microsoft cancelled its WinFS product and I wanted to see it in ac
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft could have pulled it off if they had designed the system from the ground up. Instead they tried to do it on the cheap by taking two existing systems (NTFS and SQL Server) and combine them in ways th
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
Good catch. When I ran 'fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c:' it reported the bytes per FRS as 1024, but then I realized my c: drive was an SSD which must have 512 byte block emulation on. The hard drive shows 4096 bytes per FRS. I forgot ab
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
Actually no. I wanted the demo video to be short (4 minutes) so I didn't do a lot of complex searches. I have other videos, but to show everything takes a 20 minute video and I didn't think that was a good length for an introducti
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
xattrs can certainly be used to store tagging info. There are a couple major problems with them though. 1) xattrs are not supported by all file systems and they are not enabled by default in some. If you copy a file with xattrs from one fil
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
With Didgets, tags are an integral part of the system. They don't get lost or forgotten when you copy a file from one place to another. Searches are a native part of the system as well so you aren't relying on a separate indexing
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
Not necessarily. Missing or misspelled tags could be discovered just like a row in a database that has a column value that is missing or misspelled can be. For example if you want all your photos to have a 'Year' tag attached for
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
They could help if the tags were 'Occupation = Plumber' and 'Name = Joe'. Now a search for all files where both tags are present will get you Joe the Plumber's invoices. If you want everything from any plumber or fr
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
One of the biggest problems with folder hierarchies is that files can often be classified in several different ways. To take your paper statements analogy, do you organize by year, by institution, or by category? What if you have a 2002 ban
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
When importing files into Didgets, the program automatically gathers information from the source file system and attaches specific tags to each file. For example, the file name is attached as a 'name' tag. Each folder name in its
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by didgetmaster 5y ago
The Didget system was designed to allow both a hierarchical folder tree as well as tags attached to individual files and folders. The tags do not replace the hierarchy unless you want them to. If you have never ever seen a system that actua