Carole

This stupid Windows 7 can’t even stamp the correct date and time on a photo when I save it from Photoshop. And it’s because of this phucking piece of shet called “Libraries”. How the phuck do I turn this koksukker off???

Take your column and shove it up your erse, a$$hole

I’m really pleased that Bill responded before me, because while I think I understand what you want, I have NO idea where you might be able to get it. I’d be interested to hear what you think of fences.

Cheers

Jim

But, I have a (somewhat) related question for you – do you know if it is possible to do the similar organizational things with open documents? For example, I am now a PhD student, and often I will be working on writing a paper – which involves having several pdfs, word processors, spreadsheets, and internet browser windows open at once, all relevant to that specific project. But then I may get tired of working on that project, and I decide to work on a different project also requiring multiple documents and browser windows open. It is really a pain to open all of those documents and sites each time I need them – and I had 2 ideas of ways to improve productivity:

My initial idea was to have 2 separate desktops, or workspaces, that I could switch between, so that when Windows stacks all of the Adobe Reader windows on top of each other, I don’t have to sort out manually which belong to project A or project B.

The second idea was to be able to simultaneously save several documents of different file types at once, and to be able to link them somehow so that they all open together. For instance, some referencing software can be made to open simultaneously whenever you open your word processor – so it would be similar to that but specific to those files, web sites, etc.

If this doesn’t sound crazy, and actually exists, could you point me in the direction of finding out how to do that? Alternatively … is there actually a way to tell Microsoft what they should be incorporating into the next version of Windows??

Libraries (while potentially useful) certainly muddy the water on a 1.5TB hard disk. If you think you will run into hard disk problems, buy a bigger hard disk in the first place. File systems were invented to keep your files exactly where you put them. If you loose them, excellent search functions were written. These ‘ghost’ folders are not a good idea. It’s not hard code to write, and the idea isn’t that new. The more I learn about computers, the more I realize the first few programmers were brilliant. They had no use for voodoo file systems, and to this day we are still using their basic layouts. This is because it’s so standardized and simple. Libraries break every file system rule I can think of.

1. Is the file where you put it? no.
2. Is the file where it says it is? no.
3. Is the file easier to find? not really.

Thanks so much.

It’s great to know that what I called tracking works at least internally. (If “internal” includes networked hard disks, so much the better.)

Where it doesn’t work, I think I should change my comment from “not only useless but quite dangerous” to “useful but dangerous.” If one experiments thoroughly and understand the dangers, nothing to keep one from taking advantage of the feature within its current limits.

Thanks again.