Data Organization
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Hey, I know what's in my folder labeled Stuff.
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I often catch myself using Downloads to store a very suspicious quantity of files.
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Iāll say that as much as I love Apple and macOS, Finder has some pretty terrible defaults that make file management pretty difficult for the average user. The default āAll Filesā view is atrocious.
Why would you use the Finder when macOS has a perfectly fine shell?
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Do you even git?
Surely experiment 1ā¦n should be branches.
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Ugh thanks for reminding me to clean up my desktop, I guessā¦
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Why would you use the Finder when macOS has a perfectly fine shell?
Image previews because I give my memes really dumb filenames
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I think most computer users now don't know that file systems exist
wrote last edited by [email protected]Especially younger people. They're used to files just... being there on their phone. Photo albums? Nah, just scroll though every photo you've ever taken to find the right one.
That, and having powerful search functionality + tagging has made perfect folder structures less of a requirement. I've never had trouble finding documents in paperless-ngx just by searching, for example.
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- Not being able to create a file
- Folders arenāt by default listed at the top
- Spring-loaded folders are hit or miss
- No good intuitive way to set defaults for ALL folders at once
- No good intuitive way to reset any folder defaults
- .DS_Store and ._DS_Store (nuff said)
What is a spring-loaded folder?
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- Not being able to create a file
- Folders arenāt by default listed at the top
- Spring-loaded folders are hit or miss
- No good intuitive way to set defaults for ALL folders at once
- No good intuitive way to reset any folder defaults
- .DS_Store and ._DS_Store (nuff said)
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And I guess this isnāt the default for backwards compatibility with 1978ās tech?
wrote last edited by [email protected]A lot of apps still use legacy Windows APIs that don't understand very long paths. Those APIs have been deprecated for maybe 15 years or more, but developers are lazy. Microsoft can't add support for long paths to the old APIs because they use a fixed buffer size (which means that only a certain amount of memory space is available for the path, and increasing it would break the apps that rely on that). They can't totally remove the old APIs because every app that uses them would break.
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I find myself having too many nested folders, and Iām just a normie. I wonder how deep they go for you tech people.
At some points, Windows wonāt let me change the file name because it was too long and Iām assuming the file path to it plus the ridiculously long name (āperson last name, first name - type of document (purpose) yyyymmddā) 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. Itās wild.
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.
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You can enable long names in Windows, essentially removing that restriction and giving you the power of all the sub folders up to something like 26'000 characters.
- Open the Registry Editor.
- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
- Find the LongPathsEnabled DWORD value, double-click it, and set its value to 1
- Restart your computer
- Be free and happy
Well son of a bitch, there was a workaround
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Data shouldn't be organized hirarchically.
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Just missing a random pile of files on the desktop.
My actual desk and office - messy. My desktop - folder, folder, 4 shortcuts. My phone -groups of apps ordered by function - Pebble, Office, Entertainment, etc. My garage - absolute hoarder nightmare from hell cause I just can't seem to get to it. Why I can be ordered in one area and not in another is beyond me.
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A lot of apps still use legacy Windows APIs that don't understand very long paths. Those APIs have been deprecated for maybe 15 years or more, but developers are lazy. Microsoft can't add support for long paths to the old APIs because they use a fixed buffer size (which means that only a certain amount of memory space is available for the path, and increasing it would break the apps that rely on that). They can't totally remove the old APIs because every app that uses them would break.
They canāt totally remove the old APIs because every app that uses them would break.
For every other company I would buy that argument. But for one that forces customers to throw away millions of computers which canāt run Win 11ā¦ no.
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Downloads is usually my largest folder. Funny thing is that it is literally all just Linux isos because I'm trying some things with servers
"Trying some things"
Then you end up liking what you slapped together with jank and a prayer to the temporary work-around and now there's a new prod server!
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Downloads is usually my largest folder. Funny thing is that it is literally all just Linux isos because I'm trying some things with servers
"Linux ISOs"
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What is a spring-loaded folder?
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This doesn't sound any easier than using Ctrl+X to cut files and Ctrl+V to paste them wherever you want to?
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Realistically, the skip should be named "Desktop"
