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I keep things fairly well organized on my file server, but I've definitely encountered times where my folder hierarchy is insufficient. Wanting to get away from hierarchies isn't just for academics and the disorganized. Here's two examples:

I naturally have a Movies directory and a TV directory. Under each I have two directories SD and HD. Sometimes I may want to simply browse all the HD video on my system.

Where do music videos (i.e. live concerts) go? They're certainly Music, but it's fair to imagine wanting to see them listed when I'm browsing through Movies and not listed when I'm browsing my mp3's. Add in tutorial videos for music production software (I have a lot of these) and it's even more of a guessing game.



It would be cool to navigate by file type sometimes.

ie: have some \sound\mp3\all "virtual directory" automatically populated will all the mp3 files of my system.

Now that I think of it, it would be cool to be able to express such "virtual directories" by way of declarative filters.

eg: mkdir ./bigfiles ./ -r 'file.size > 100mo, subdir by file.year/file.type, file.type isnt tmp' -- ..., you get the picture


It's almost like "Smart Folders" in spotlight ;)

(Yes, I get what you're saying - you want to impose a structure on that smart folder via the metadata. It was just too tempting to make a stupid comment ;)




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