I have to change cloud drive service yet again
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check the link, its at least as old as windows 7
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@Donahue said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
check the link, its at least as old as windows 7
Yep, that's right. Cool.
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sadly, it doesnt work for all file types.
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@scottalanmiller said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
Right, so don't use folders, use tags! THere is no interim "dumping ground" solution.
We have roughly 100k files in our main projects folder, with ~900 subfolders. Are you saying to put all 100k files right into the root of the drive? We would need a folder/filing system just to keep track of the tags.
We have certain jobs where we get 7 iterations of drawings as the project progresses and all of those would have to be tagged somehow? We might have a folder named "2018-10-31 Die Review Changes" 7 folders deep into a specific job folder, a tag like that would be impossible to remember.
Edit: maybe fork a new convo talking about tags instead of folders?
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@black3dynamite said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
@Donahue said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
I would like to know too. Is there a way to incorporate tags into a windows environment? Perhaps with something like NC?
You add tags on files. Right-click on the file and select properties. Select the Details tab. There you will see a Tags under Description.
Here is a PDF on my desktop, right click, properties, Details - I don't see a tag area.
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@bnrstnr said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
@scottalanmiller said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
Right, so don't use folders, use tags! THere is no interim "dumping ground" solution.
We have roughly 100k files in our main projects folder, with ~900 subfolders. Are you saying to put all 100k files right into the root of the drive? We would need a folder/filing system just to keep track of the tags.
We have certain jobs where we get 7 iterations of drawings as the project progresses and all of those would have to be tagged somehow? We might have a folder named "2018-10-31 Die Review Changes" 7 folders deep into a specific job folder, a tag like that would be impossible to remember.
Edit: maybe fork a new convo talking about tags instead of folders?
I'll wait for @scottalanmiller to split this reply into a new thread.
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@Dashrender said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
@black3dynamite said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
@Donahue said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
I would like to know too. Is there a way to incorporate tags into a windows environment? Perhaps with something like NC?
You add tags on files. Right-click on the file and select properties. Select the Details tab. There you will see a Tags under Description.
Here is a PDF on my desktop, right click, properties, Details - I don't see a tag area.
It doesn't even work on txt files too. Must only be available for Office documents.
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@bnrstnr said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
@scottalanmiller said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
Right, so don't use folders, use tags! THere is no interim "dumping ground" solution.
We have roughly 100k files in our main projects folder, with ~900 subfolders. Are you saying to put all 100k files right into the root of the drive? We would need a folder/filing system just to keep track of the tags.
We have certain jobs where we get 7 iterations of drawings as the project progresses and all of those would have to be tagged somehow? We might have a folder named "2018-10-31 Die Review Changes" 7 folders deep into a specific job folder, a tag like that would be impossible to remember.
Edit: maybe fork a new convo talking about tags instead of folders?
How do you remember it with the more cumbersome folder system? Remember, anything you can do with folders, you can do with tags. Tags are perfect, they don't solve all problems. But they do meet or exceed anything a folder can do.
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@black3dynamite said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
@Dashrender said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
@black3dynamite said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
@Donahue said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
I would like to know too. Is there a way to incorporate tags into a windows environment? Perhaps with something like NC?
You add tags on files. Right-click on the file and select properties. Select the Details tab. There you will see a Tags under Description.
Here is a PDF on my desktop, right click, properties, Details - I don't see a tag area.
It doesn't even work on txt files too. Must only be available for Office documents.
Oh that just sucks then.
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@black3dynamite said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
@Dashrender said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
@black3dynamite said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
@Donahue said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
I would like to know too. Is there a way to incorporate tags into a windows environment? Perhaps with something like NC?
You add tags on files. Right-click on the file and select properties. Select the Details tab. There you will see a Tags under Description.
Here is a PDF on my desktop, right click, properties, Details - I don't see a tag area.
It doesn't even work on txt files too. Must only be available for Office documents.
Doesn't work for MS Office files either - that are on the desktop at least.
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It works for me. But this a xlsx file
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@black3dynamite said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
It works for me. But this a xlsx file
There it is. It must be an MS Office specific file.
Still sucks, and makes it mostly useless. I wonder if OneDrive and ODfB support tags of any file type?
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@scottalanmiller said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
How do you remember it with the more cumbersome folder system? Remember, anything you can do with folders, you can do with tags. Tags are perfect, they don't solve all problems. But they do meet or exceed anything a folder can do.
It's not cumbersome at all, IMO, and you don't have to remember anything. When you open our Projects folder, there is a single folder for every project with the job number and a short description (1810-001 Pizza Eating Machine), inside there are folders for various aspects of the project. If I open the "Received" folder, there are folders dated with a short description (2018-10-31 Preliminary Die Designs, 2018-11-22 Station 3 Redesign, etc.). It's very intuitive.
Maybe I'm looking at this wrong since I'm thinking of using tags with respect to this forum, since it's really the only place I use tags. But why do we have topics at all? Why not just have every post tagged. You navigate to mangolassi.it and you see every post, in no certain order, but it's super easy to use because you search for a tag? Each topic is essentially a folder.
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@bnrstnr said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
Maybe I'm looking at this wrong since I'm thinking of using tags with respect to this forum, since it's really the only place I use tags. But why do we have topics at all? Why not just have every post tagged. You navigate to mangolassi.it and you see every post, in no certain order, but it's super easy to use because you search for a tag? Each topic is essentially a folder.
We have topics because you can't subscribe to tags with the current NodeBB code base. Otherwise, topics would be pointless. It's only because the tag implementation is not complete.
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@bnrstnr said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
@scottalanmiller said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
How do you remember it with the more cumbersome folder system? Remember, anything you can do with folders, you can do with tags. Tags are perfect, they don't solve all problems. But they do meet or exceed anything a folder can do.
It's not cumbersome at all, IMO, and you don't have to remember anything. When you open our Projects folder, there is a single folder for every project with the job number and a short description (1810-001 Pizza Eating Machine), inside there are folders for various aspects of the project. If I open the "Received" folder, there are folders dated with a short description (2018-10-31 Preliminary Die Designs, 2018-11-22 Station 3 Redesign, etc.). It's very intuitive.
How is that different than tags, though? You could do all of that exactly the same with tags.
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the benefit I see of tags over folders is while you can nest folders, there are times when I would want a file to have more than one tag, and folders or nested folders just wont cut it. I have a good example. We have CAD drawings for standardized parts that we use on several machines we manufacture. We are currently storing two separate (but equal) copies in two folders that are next to each other in the hierarchy. One folder contains all of the standard drawings, and the other folder contains everything categorized by type and keyword, much like a tag. But it's very stupid because there is a pretty high chance for someone to update one, but not the other. A shortcut would work, but they dont do that at the moment. But tags would be perfect. On our other drawings, we could have tags for customer, machine type, year, drawn by, etc. I can see how using tags would allow for seeing and searching the data any way you want. But folders are pretty limited in what they can do, and it all hinges on having a well thought out system, and usually ahead of time. Our primary drawings are all stored by year first, and then by drawing number, which is sort of like a project number. But the drawing number is baked into the file name, and we just have folders for years. In order to find the drawing we need, you have to consult some other document that can do all the cross referencing. Its a major pain. It would be heaven to be be able to do a search that said "show me all drawings related to customer A for Product B". I bet we could do that with tags, but not with folders. You could argue that you could just setup the folders to be by customer and then by product type, but then you wouldn't get a good search for "drawn in the year 2015". You can setup folders to make any one particular search type easy, but it becomes very hard to make a good search against something that the folder structure didn't account for.
TLDR, tags ware way more flexible.
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@Donahue said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
the benefit I see of tags over folders is while you can nest folders, there are times when I would want a file to have more than one tag, and folders or nested folders just wont cut it. I have a good example. We have CAD drawings for standardized parts that we use on several machines we manufacture. We are currently storing two separate (but equal) copies in two folders that are next to each other in the hierarchy. One folder contains all of the standard drawings, and the other folder contains everything categorized by type and keyword, much like a tag. But it's very stupid because there is a pretty high chance for someone to update one, but not the other. A shortcut would work, but they dont do that at the moment. But tags would be perfect. On our other drawings, we could have tags for customer, machine type, year, drawn by, etc. I can see how using tags would allow for seeing and searching the data any way you want. But folders are pretty limited in what they can do, and it all hinges on having a well thought out system, and usually ahead of time. Our primary drawings are all stored by year first, and then by drawing number, which is sort of like a project number. But the drawing number is baked into the file name, and we just have folders for years. In order to find the drawing we need, you have to consult some other document that can do all the cross referencing. Its a major pain. It would be heaven to be be able to do a search that said "show me all drawings related to customer A for Product B". I bet we could do that with tags, but not with folders. You could argue that you could just setup the folders to be by customer and then by product type, but then you wouldn't get a good search for "drawn in the year 2015". You can setup folders to make any one particular search type easy, but it becomes very hard to make a good search against something that the folder structure didn't account for.
TLDR, tags ware way more flexible.
Tags also don't have a problem with things "moving" as it isn't a location, but a tag. So someone retagging a document doesn't make it "move" to applications, it just changes when it is displayed via a filter.
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@scottalanmiller said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
@Donahue said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
the benefit I see of tags over folders is while you can nest folders, there are times when I would want a file to have more than one tag, and folders or nested folders just wont cut it. I have a good example. We have CAD drawings for standardized parts that we use on several machines we manufacture. We are currently storing two separate (but equal) copies in two folders that are next to each other in the hierarchy. One folder contains all of the standard drawings, and the other folder contains everything categorized by type and keyword, much like a tag. But it's very stupid because there is a pretty high chance for someone to update one, but not the other. A shortcut would work, but they dont do that at the moment. But tags would be perfect. On our other drawings, we could have tags for customer, machine type, year, drawn by, etc. I can see how using tags would allow for seeing and searching the data any way you want. But folders are pretty limited in what they can do, and it all hinges on having a well thought out system, and usually ahead of time. Our primary drawings are all stored by year first, and then by drawing number, which is sort of like a project number. But the drawing number is baked into the file name, and we just have folders for years. In order to find the drawing we need, you have to consult some other document that can do all the cross referencing. Its a major pain. It would be heaven to be be able to do a search that said "show me all drawings related to customer A for Product B". I bet we could do that with tags, but not with folders. You could argue that you could just setup the folders to be by customer and then by product type, but then you wouldn't get a good search for "drawn in the year 2015". You can setup folders to make any one particular search type easy, but it becomes very hard to make a good search against something that the folder structure didn't account for.
TLDR, tags ware way more flexible.
Tags also don't have a problem with things "moving" as it isn't a location, but a tag. So someone retagging a document doesn't make it "move" to applications, it just changes when it is displayed via a filter.
thats less of a point for us, our files dont move much. But they commonly would belong to probably at least half a dozen tags. Most of our folder structure is pretty poorly designed and just copied over from the times when those files existed only on a users local computer. It's hard to get 50 people to stop bad habits all at once. I have taken away the ability for people to make changes to probably the first few layers of our main storage share, but at some point the chaos resumes.
one thing I just thought of. Can you base file permissions on tags? we use folder permissions heavily.
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@Donahue said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:
one thing I just thought of. Can you base file permissions on tags? we use folder permissions heavily.
Can, sure. But it depends on the mechanism doing it. At a high level, you can do anything with tags. Finding an implementation that does what you want, that's the challenge.
