Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.

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.