Get rid of the libraries?

kado897 said:

Mike Connor said:

kado897 said:

Ho Hum... Why not get rid of the file structure altogether and just have one big folder.

Libraries have nothing at all to do with file structure.

Using a single folder is not a problem with the right software.

Change is not always progress.........

Regards....Mike Connor

I am aware that libraries are nothing to do with the file structure they are a tool to help in grouping and organizing folders. I find them very useful. I just find it incredible that some people automatically reject anything new and hark back to the good old days of XP.

Not according to Microsoft;

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With Windows 7, the concept of Libraries tries to address the problem of users storing content all over their PC by allowing them to have full control over their Documents Library folder structure. In other words, in Windows 7 users can define which folders to include in the Documents Library
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From Inside Windows 7:Introducing Libraries

Just a poor attempt to make up for lack of user knowledge and discipline.

That many find them useful is not at issue, there are just as many more who find them to be a nuisance.

Regards....Mike Connor

kado897 said:

So, with 10k folders, how do you find anything?

Even I can recognize a rhetorical question.

Truthfully, I didn't think it was that high. But that is what the command says. I'd have guessed 2 or 3 thousand. I never notice it.

kado897 said:

So, with 10k folders, how do you find anything?

The same way you do now, using either a file manager, or a command line utility. ( Preferably one that works! :) )

Regards....Mike Connor

kado897 said:

It's not just people who store things all over the place, programs do too. Libraries are just a tool, you don't have to use them.

Good programs don't ! :)

I know I don't have to use them, that's why I disable and remove them. There are a lot of people who don't want to use them and ARE forced to use them, because they dont know how to get rid of them.

Regards....Mike Connor

Mike Connor said:

kado897 said:

So, with 10k folders, how do you find anything?

The same way you do now, using either a file manager, or a command line utility. ( Preferably one that works! :) )

Regards....Mike Connor

I assume Kado is jiving me, but I'll play along while I wait for the football game.

Suppose I download a PDF file that is a manual for a Gigabyte GA-H67MA-UDH2 motherboard.

It goes here:

D:\computer\hardware\motherboards and chipsets\Gigabyte

Likewise a live recording made by Ella Fitzgerald goes here:

D:\mp3\pop and jazz\ella fitzgerald\live

It's just a nested series of folders.

How do I find out if I have a particular Ella Fitzgerald live recording?

Well, I know that I wouldn't put the Ella song in the Elvis folder. So, oddly enough, I would navigate to D:\mp3\pop and jazz\ella fitzgerald\live and look.

If I was unorganized generally, I would have all 22,000 mp3s in a single folder and have lost my mind long ago.

You have to be willing to name a file based on its contents. That is--your Gigabyte motherboard manuals can't be named "cool computer stuff".

I have a high powered near-instantaneous file search tool ("Everything"), which can find any file on my system by name within 1 or 2 seconds. I use it occasionally if I think it's quicker than navigating and looking.

But you knew all of that. I'm just playing along with you. As I said, "to each his own".

kado897 said:

Mike Connor said:

kado897 said:

It's not just people who store things all over the place, programs do too. Libraries are just a tool, you don't have to use them.

Good programs don't ! :)

I know I don't have to use them, that's why I disable and remove them. There are a lot of people who don't want to use them and ARE forced to use them, because they dont know how to get rid of them.

Regards....Mike Connor

It's not people who learn about them and try to use them before deciding to get rid of them that I can't understand, it's the people who just dismiss them out of hand because they are different from the way it has always been done.

I suppose that's fair comment. The problem for most who have tried to use them is not the obvious gains to be had, there is no gainsaying that there are various powerful advantages to using libraries or similar systems under certain circumstances, but the concomitant loss of a nunber of quite simple functions and routes.

Nobody I know who has much to do with computers, ( and that's a large number of people) has dismissed them out of hand, they have generally tried to use them and given up in frustration.

There are also untold numbers of users who simply wanted a faster more reliable system, ( than XP), they did not want a whole slew of, ( to them), dubious "improvements" in the user interface.

There are lots of various groups and factions involved here, and I suspect that those who "dismiss out of hand", are not that really large a group all told.

Whatever, just a few thoughts on the matter.

Regards....Mike Connor