On Jun 8, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 15:48, Michael_google gmail_Gersten > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> ** If everything is a file, then things work well **. That is the >> central lesson of unix. > > My take is that while "everything is a file and you get to manage it" > works, it sucks to have to manage it. > This is why I love managing my photos with iPhoto and my music with > iTunes (well, I still have a file based lossless library). It's why > Address Book is nice to use and I don't use a file editor to read and > write my email. > > There's plenty of work left to do, but the "death of the file system" > is a good thing for most users.
As an example, my photo library is about 50 gigs with thousands of files. I refuse to manage that manually. My music library is close to 60 gigs and just as many files. I don't want to manually manage that either. No one does who is sane ;). --Larry_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
