On 03/22/2015 06:39 PM, Matthew Caron wrote:
On 03/22/2015 03:58 PM, Christian Reiner wrote:
What I personally learned over the last decades in IT is that all approaches
to find "a better" or even "the right" hierarchy or structure to organize ones
data are senseless. There is no such thing as "the right". That is always in
relation to a situation, or purpose or whatever.
I find that it is also is very heavily related to how the brains of the
people who are using it work.
Let's FINALLY kill file hierarchies! Let's free ourselves! Revolution!
Nope. The way my mind works, I love them. For example, I hate all those
photo or audio programs that slurp everything into a DB and they're not
individually broken out on disk. Drives me nuts. I like ones which build
a database of what you have on disk, and tag them for easy searching,
but that is added on top of the file hierarchy.
As for the rest of what you posted, I have no issue having those be
additional features, as long as there is still a "file hierarchy" option
or association there too (which you did indeed propose, despite your
"let's kill it" battle cry, above).
Ditto. I'm fastidious about not only hierarchy, but file naming conventions.
I've only fairly recently started using ownCloud, but would drop it
immediately if a hierarchical folder structure were not at least an
option (and consider dropping it if that were not the default). In my
application, volume alone would make a single listing unusable.
IMHO, the best compromise, for those whose brains work like Christian's,
is a search feature that
(1) searches all folders,
(2) returns a single list, and
(3) supports wildcards.
That way searching for "*" gives the desired flat listing. But of course
those whose brains differ will likely have differing opinions. (See
Above :-)
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