• Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Folders are absolutely nestable.

    The problem with virtual folders is you can’t have one document in multiple folders without causing chaos because of how limiting that hierarchy is. This is why tagging is better.

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        6 months ago

        Location is irrelevant and a legacy method of thought. Why would a digital file need to be held down to a single location? Sure, you could symlink it but that’s a crutch.

        Tags can have permissions.

        It’s all metadata.

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          6 months ago

          Yeah I grok it I just have no idea how you are going to solve all the issues this involves. Like memory mapped I/O or air gapped networks where the file is in a physical location etc. it feels like you will just have to reinvent directory structure inside tags.

          Dunno know, maybe make your own *nix that works this way and try to get attention to it.