The Death of Folders?

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Posted by Zonk on Thursday June 9, 2005 @03:25AM from the croak dept.

saintlupus writes "There's an interesting article on Wired about the interface changes in Tiger being a precursor to the demise of the classic folder-browsing Finder." From the article: "Users type search queries more or less as they did pre-Tiger, but 'the quality, scope and presentation of the results are significantly better, so users get good benefits without having to change their behavior.'"

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The Death of Folders? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-09 03:27 · Score: 2, Funny

Long live the directory!
Hmm.... by TechnoLust · 2005-06-09 03:27 · Score: 2, Funny

That's funny, I thought Gmail's labels system was supposed to be the death of folders.

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Folders?!? by coop0030 · 2005-06-09 03:27 · Score: 3, Funny

I just put everything in the C:\ drive and know that I can find it using Windows XP's sweet search capabilities!

err...yea...
1. Re:Folders?!? by lpangelrob2 · 2005-06-09 05:41 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You can just name them 'c:\index~1.htm' thru 'c:\ind~9999.htm', of course.
  Call it a toast to the benefits of the initial Windows 95 file naming scheme. :-)
  
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I don't think so... by Saganaga · 2005-06-09 03:29 · Score: 4, Funny

In other news, it was recently announced that due to the widespread use of email, street addresses would soon become obsolete. Out with the antiquated, in with the new!
MyFolders died a few days go by Timesprout · 2005-06-09 03:30 · Score: 1, Funny

You insensitive clod!

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My File Search by LegendOfLink · 2005-06-09 03:31 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm still waiting for the time when I can "see" the computer code, via a green monitor that displays a shower of code. Then, I will have a plug that connects to my spinal column and allows me to "enter" the computer and manipulate the code using my brainwaves.

It'd be very efficient, I could then just think of finding a file, and there it would be. Or better yet, I could imagine a beowul...NO CARRIER

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Misread by dsginter · 2005-06-09 03:32 · Score: 4, Funny

I read this as the death of Folgers. I almost fained since Folgers is The Best Part of Wakin' Up(TM).

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1. Re:Misread by hunterx11 · 2005-06-09 05:30 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  We've replaced his traditional hierarchical filesystem with Folgers Crystals. Let's see if he notices.
  
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hiding by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-09 03:52 · Score: 1, Funny

How can I hide things from my kids or wife?
Ten levels of folders with scary names like "SYSX.dat" keeps them
the hell outta my pr0n.
Re:Removable media by hexix · 2005-06-09 03:53 · Score: 2, Funny

So it can tell you that you burned the thing your searching for to a CD at some point in your life? How exactly do you expect it to prompt you for the proper CD?

"Please insert the CD on which you wrote "MY NUDIE PICS' in blue marker."

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Re:What's wrong with folders by Dasch · 2005-06-09 05:14 · Score: 2, Funny

What about adding text labels to files? That way one file can have multiple labels, and can be accessed through several ways with a Labels View or something.

You could for instance label all pictures with your buddy John Doe "john". That way you can quickly find those pictures, even though they lie in different folders ("drunk in florida 2001", "drunk in hawaii 2003").