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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 26. feb. 2012 00:14, Adrian Maier wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 20:58, Ian Santopietro<isantop@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Directory based navigation is a bad concept for modern computing. Not even
> > Windows is holding on to that in Windows 8. Users don't care about folders
> > or files. They only want to interact with data.
> Well,  in this case i have some bad old news for them : data is stored
> in files.  And files are organized in directories.  If some users
> prefer to put all of their files in a single directory (for example
> "on the desktop")   this is nothing but a bad practice.

Then using hard links, for instance, is a bad idea? Or tags? Hierarchies 
are not the only way to store data. For instance, the web is a 
collection of files, but quite a few people now actually use search 
engines instead of old-style web directories. Because in the beginning, 
we did actually view the web as a hierarchy. A lot of people seems to 
have forgotten this already.

It's perfectly legal to mean that using searches to access things is a 
bad idea, but nearly all users will disagree with you.

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Jo-Erlend Schinstad