Re:The time has come to replace file systems
by rolandog on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:28AM
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Indeed; on one occasion I had to help my wife troubleshoot something on a shared folder in her workplace's Google Drive...
I was shocked by my wife's colleagues extensive use of special characters because they wanted their file to appear first.
The proposed solution won't be any better if the average user doesn't know how to name things properly or how to search for them.
Re:The time has come to replace file systems
by Khoth on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:59AM
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Yeah, you can see the downside in the demo video. When he shows off the search for pictures, there's a random mixture of actual photos and things like toolbar icons and whatnot. Sure, you could fix this by tagging everything and doing a more complex search, but that sounds like a lot of work and discipline, more than eg the guy doing the demo was willing to put into it.
Re:The time has come to replace file systems
by didgetmaster on Thursday February 24, 2022 @04:38PM
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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 introduction.
That is the main problem with these so called "solutions", they usually take more effort and discipline than the problem they originally set out to solve. The right solution is just to learn the original system properly rather than trying to invent an even worse way to work around it.