What's with this anti-directory structure movement?

Re:What's with this anti-directory structure movement? by Confusion on Thursday July 26, 2012 @08:22AM (#4295625)

  They have all their pictures and video in a tool that 
  organizes them into albums and such without them having to 
  deal with folders.

Yeah, and they organize their albums by category, containing albums by year. Or they organize theyr albums by genre, containing albums by artist, containing albums in chronological order.

And how exactly does that differ from folders and does that support the point of the OP, that folders aren't difficult?

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Re:What's with this anti-directory structure movement? by nchlswu on Thursday July 26, 2012 @08:42AM (#4295680)

Referring specifically to something like iPhoto or iTunes, the general purpose or intended paradigm is that users don't have to manage file folders or folder structures themselves.

The whole idea is that users can't do it, especially when complexity increases (it's not a given that power users are great at this either) and that everything you have should just work (when you upload photos, it's organized by location date, etc., on import, automatically or music is automatically there).

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