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Path Finder 5 - The Finder, greatly enriched again
I just don't get it. If I need to do serious file manipulation, open terminal and do it. Otherwise Finder (or it's replacements) are not really needed, since we have spotlight.
Path Finder 5 - The Finder, greatly enriched again
I'm so sorry that a weakling such as myself who does not have the entire filesystem memorized pollutes your world.
Path Finder 5 - The Finder, greatly enriched again
That's exactly my point. Don't you know how to use spotlight (one of THE best features of OS X)?
Path Finder 5 - The Finder, greatly enriched again
vi? Why not sed? If the files all match some basic criterion, then it's highly likely you're going to be doing the same edit. So more like this then:
I agree on that point: If you're doing something complex, use the appropriate tool.
But I disagree on using Spotlight. If you're doing something simple, then you don't need anything more than the straight Finder. If your documents are cluttered or named inappropriately, then it's time you devoted a day to housekeeping. Spotlight could help out there, but it's of no practical use in a well-ordered filesystem.
Path Finder 5 - The Finder, greatly enriched again
well, what can I say - I have oodles of script files hanging around on my machine (php, javascript, ruby, etc.). many I've made myself, many I've downloaded as self-tutoring examples. I just love the fact that if I forget the right syntax for (say) createElement(), I can type createElement in spotlight and have a shortlist of all the files on my machine where that function is used. It takes me 20-30 seconds to find an example, rather than the 5 frustrating minutes or so I'd need if I had to dig through the file system (or god help me if I tried it using unix - and yes, I'm pretty good with unix). Spotlight has its flaws, no question, but sometimes (as Churchill so aptly put it) it's the worst system available except for all the others.
Path Finder 5 - The Finder, greatly enriched again
You can't generalize personal information organization habits. The "everything is miscellaneous" model of information organization does not work for everyone under every context. For example, I have a very precise hierarchical classification for work-critical documents. In some instances, even spatial arrangement in a directory has significance.
Path Finder 5 - The Finder, greatly enriched again
I'm actually like you in that regard. When I'm archiving data for the first time I pay great attention to where it goes and how it is stored, and I even customize the views of individual folders.
I dont get the superior sounding tone of this comment..
I work on about a dozen projects at the same time - mostly exchanging information through e-mail and attachments. I have documents used in different projects that I receive from others with identical file names, perhaps forwarded in response to another unrelated e-mail. Invariably, I need to store these documents in a hierarchical structure, but retain the same name so that the sender does not get confused. Spotlight almost never finds such documents- and what if the document has been referred to in more than 20 e-mails and also stored in more than 20 other places in my folder structure? Spotlight only shows the first 5 or 10.
I dont get the superior sounding tone of this comment..
"Invariably, I need to store these documents in a hierarchical structure,"
Many different ways of thinking about files and data
I use whatever makes the most sense for the job. Spotlight is great for some things, but woefully inadequate for others. For example, I often want to look at a group of files that are related to each other (by project, generallY). Spotlight is fine for finding one thing in particular, but not showing the relationship of multiple files to each other. |
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