On Aug 18, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Gopiballava wrote: > On Aug 18, 2011, at 16:59, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Couldn't it be just a view as in "All My Files" ? > > What I mean by extra management is that instead of deleting files once I need > to delete them twice and/or decide which sync. > >> My Documents folder is 52GB right now. > > Mine is massive too, but I have source and object code and object files, and > some disk images. The sum of all my iOS editable documents is likely much > smaller. > >>> >>> Whether there are any iOS apps that will handle letting you look through >>> 100+ documents, I'm less sure of. I think the iOS file selector dialogs >>> will be the limiting factors for most people before the size of the >>> documents. >> >> good point! >> >> But I really don't want deleting a document from a mobile device to delete >> it from my computer. >> >> This may simply require managing the syncing in a smart way from my computer. >> May not be an issue at all. > > I wonder what all your word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and > similar documents add up to be.
Yeah, I was thinking about that after sending my email - that given the docs are tightly associated with apps, I may not have that many that I'm actually syncing. > Since iCloud sync is on an app by app basis, you will be syncing only > documents from specific apps fairly easily. Yeah. > > This brings up project management: seems like every app will have its own UI > for managing files. For sure, this is where we are headed - the disappearance of the file system as we've known it. > Maybe folders will find their way everywhere. > Who knows. I guess I will have to make the same folder in every app, and will > have no way to look at all "project foo" documents and open them up in the > right app. > > What I think is likely to happen for me: > iCloud sync is used for all my actively edited documents > Some other system is used for everything else. Dropbox, maybe a generic iDisk > like feature if iCloud ends up having that - something that has folders for > everything and no limits for document types etc. > > I really need to reorganize my document sync system. Ditto. K > > Thanks, > > gopi@iPhone > _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
