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Data Organization (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah, I don’t know why having folders at the top would make anything easier.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Because if you're looking for a subfolder you're not looking for a file, and vice versa? It doesn't matter much in sparse directories, but it annoys me having to scroll through a ton of files to find the folder I want in directories with both.

    I too like a lot of things about Mac, but finder could be improved, for sure.

    (I have gotten used to a lot of its features and hate Windows' defaults too, so there's that. I don't think an ideal exists, unless it's in Linux somewhere and I just need to dual boot the desktop and get it over with)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    On macOS I just type the first few letters of the file/folder and because it’s in alphabetical order, I find it immediately. I don’t want to have to think “oh is this a file or a folder” then scroll around to the appropriate area.

    This reminds me of users who complain about <select> fields on websites: they always want some weird sorting instead of just tabbing into the field and typing a few letters.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thar makes sense, although I am generally not trying to use the keyboard at the same time (to be honest I was not aware you could filter a finder view like that, I thought it only ran search and I have never found MacOS's search to be satisfactory)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I grew up on Windows but when I came to macOS I went hard into key commands; the UI is a lot more uniform so using a combination of key commands and Trackpad gestures you can fly through tasks pretty quickly.

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