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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:46:53 -0000 (UTC)
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:38:35 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:
> 
>> But much of the rank and file do not even know where their files are
>> stored (they don't understand nested directories, and have no idea of
>> "the path to the file".  Which is why you find many with every file in
>> "documents" (one level, no subdirectories) or every file on "desktop"
>> (because then they get a big icon that they can remember is "near the
>> top right corner".
> 
> I can't always find the files. I understand the motivation but sticking 
> everything in C:\Users\foobar\wherever and making most of the tree 
> invisible by default was a "Don't worry your pretty little head. You don't 
> need to know." move.
> 
> Then you have frameworks like Angular or dotnet. I first started using VS 
> Code to navigate the levels and twisty little passages. 

And now, we have the "smartphone native" generation who have only ever 
used a "phone" -- where, in Android at least, while there is a Linux 
filesystem underneath, the entire UI layer goes to great length to hide 
that fact from confusing the users.

As for Apple's iOS, whether there is a 'filesystem' underneath in the 
usual sense, it too pulls the "you don't need to be aware of this 
detail" trick to hide it from their users as well.