Throwing them away just because Steve Jobs hated them is not only short-sighted, it’s destructive, and makes computing more complicated, not less. Right, so this paragraph wasn’t supposed to be here, but this just hit me the moment I wanted to press publish: making files harder to move around? Making it harder to find them? Making it harder to take them with you? It’s been staring me in the face this whole time. I think files themselves are an awful abstraction for user data, and a hierarchical store makes them even worse. It forces you to generate names for everything, and to think of where to store things. That is a job that should be left to the computer! Why should there be a name for every picture in a thousands-long collection? Either I will have to cook it up, or put up with a serial number, or some such. Arrange files in project bin, pinnacle studio 22 serial# I think that the current trend of showing data as content, rather than files, organized by metadata (Ã la music manager or photo app)is the way to go. And it is better to keep it separate from file system management. I’ve seen MANY people TOTALLY FAIL at understanding the difference between pictures or music as named files in the explorer, with OS-provided previews and views, or as objects in their media manager, with different names (if any) and organized in a totally different fashion. Arrange files in project bin, pinnacle studio 22 serial#.
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