Data Organization
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zsh? I mean, I use that too… but what does that have to do with anything?You can do all file management operations from the command line. No need to use the Finder.
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Anyone who uses YYMMDD instead of ISO 8601 needs to be fed feet first into a wood chipper.
ISO 8601 is
YYYYMMDD(orYYYY-MM-DDin extended format)Are you really going to wood chipper someone for leaving off the leading
20? I think we can safely infer the century and millennium with a high confidence, why not trade them for two extra name characters? -
ISO 8601 is
YYYYMMDD(orYYYY-MM-DDin extended format)Are you really going to wood chipper someone for leaving off the leading
20? I think we can safely infer the century and millennium with a high confidence, why not trade them for two extra name characters?As an old person who has archives dating back to the 90s, yes.
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You can do all file management operations from the command line. No need to use the Finder.
I don’t think the “average user” is going to drop Finder to use the terminal.
In fact though I’m not an “average user”and use
bash,zshpretty much every day, there are still some things I’d rather do in Finder. -
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Man, I hate my moms pc folder layout, like why do you have Documents folder inside of documents folder inside of Documents folder? Why do you create excel sheets inside Downloads folder when you didn't download them???
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Anyone who uses YYMMDD instead of ISO 8601 needs to be fed feet first into a wood chipper.
I like my
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You're a massive du -sh
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As an old person who has archives dating back to the 90s, yes.
So do I, but I don't think I need to worry too much about confusing them with 2090.
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Yes. Downloads is the way.
If you want to make yourself organize better, set up a cron to remove all downloads older than 7 days
then you’ll be efficient—and probably have nightmares.wrote last edited by [email protected]No,I'll just disable the cron job before it executes and forget about it.
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Yeah, I don’t know why having folders at the top would make anything easier.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Because if you're looking for a subfolder you're not looking for a file, and vice versa? It doesn't matter much in sparse directories, but it annoys me having to scroll through a ton of files to find the folder I want in directories with both.
I too like a lot of things about Mac, but finder could be improved, for sure.
(I have gotten used to a lot of its features and hate Windows' defaults too, so there's that. I don't think an ideal exists, unless it's in Linux somewhere and I just need to dual boot the desktop and get it over with)
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I use that all the time but never knew it had a specific name.
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This was one of the reasons I quit trying to develop on Windows way back when. I had a very well organized system of subfolders for all my code, and it was literally running into some kind of path length limit trying to import deeply nested dependencies in certain projects. This was WELL into the era of 64-bit computing, absolutely no excuse other than Microsoft taking shortcuts.
I still run into this issue when one of my company's clients requires developing on Windows. Doesn't take many subfolders before
node_modulesjust starts breaking.There are lots of reasons I hate developing on windows and that's certainly one of them.
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Data shouldn't be organized hirarchically.
How would you propose to organize it then?
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I like my
YYYY.MM.DD-textformat and you can sue me for itDots are reserved for filetype information, heathen.
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Last I checked that’s not a Finder replacement.
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I shit you not, IT around 2004, I had a nurse who stored all her important docs in "Recyle Bin"
She put in a ticket that her computer was slow. We scheduled a time to look at it and made sure she knew to be there.
When I showed up, she had left to go to lunch on purpose so she could take a free long lunch. I asked her manager to call her back in, she refused.
I diagnosed she was out of space, and emptied her bin.
That did not end up going well.
She was furious, Her boss was mad. My boss was pissed that it happened but considered it reasonable since she refused to be there.
I spent the better part of 4 hours undeleting deleted recycle bin contents which is WAYYYYYY harder than undeleting deleted files. They're already UUID's and bringing them back into existence will not put them back in the recycle bin, all that meta is gone.
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Because if you're looking for a subfolder you're not looking for a file, and vice versa? It doesn't matter much in sparse directories, but it annoys me having to scroll through a ton of files to find the folder I want in directories with both.
I too like a lot of things about Mac, but finder could be improved, for sure.
(I have gotten used to a lot of its features and hate Windows' defaults too, so there's that. I don't think an ideal exists, unless it's in Linux somewhere and I just need to dual boot the desktop and get it over with)
On macOS I just type the first few letters of the file/folder and because it’s in alphabetical order, I find it immediately. I don’t want to have to think “oh is this a file or a folder” then scroll around to the appropriate area.
This reminds me of users who complain about
<select>fields on websites: they always want some weird sorting instead of just tabbing into the field and typing a few letters. -
On macOS I just type the first few letters of the file/folder and because it’s in alphabetical order, I find it immediately. I don’t want to have to think “oh is this a file or a folder” then scroll around to the appropriate area.
This reminds me of users who complain about
<select>fields on websites: they always want some weird sorting instead of just tabbing into the field and typing a few letters.I haven't memorized everything, so file folders grouped together is easier.
Having the option to choose to sort either way would be the best option.
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I find myself having too many nested folders, and I’m just a normie. I wonder how deep they go for you tech people.
At some points, Windows won’t let me change the file name because it was too long and I’m assuming the file path to it plus the ridiculously long name (“person last name, first name - type of document (purpose) yyyymmdd”) just breaks Windows.
Sometimes I have to copy those files to my desktop just to rename the new file, so that I can upload the file to an online system that only lets me upload files with names under 42 characters long. It’s wild.
Too deep.
I am having a peoblem bwcause sometimes I broke my own rules or sorted every itme in it's own folder. -
On macOS I just type the first few letters of the file/folder and because it’s in alphabetical order, I find it immediately. I don’t want to have to think “oh is this a file or a folder” then scroll around to the appropriate area.
This reminds me of users who complain about
<select>fields on websites: they always want some weird sorting instead of just tabbing into the field and typing a few letters.Thar makes sense, although I am generally not trying to use the keyboard at the same time (to be honest I was not aware you could filter a finder view like that, I thought it only ran search and I have never found MacOS's search to be satisfactory)
