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Way back in the days when "delicious" was just "del.icio.us", I had assumed that everyone had finally caught on that Ontology is overrated.
I can tag on-line web links, blog posts, questions on stackoverflow.com, and all kinds of web-centric miscellany, but this very basic concept still seems to be missing (or hideously crippled) in Windows?
If you use "tagging" for your local files, what do you use?
dreftymac
Posted 2009-07-22T17:16:13.750
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I don't use tagging. I use search. A good search engine built right into Windows since Vista, and it has rarely failed me.
Dan Walker
Posted 2009-07-22T17:16:13.750
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Interestingly, none of these are my methods.
I use locate32.exe if I have to find files.
Gave up on windows indexing a long time back.
I might even do a Cygwin, bash, find and even grep to get a file.
nik
Posted 2009-07-22T17:16:13.750
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@nik, have you used Windows search in Win 7? Why did you give it up? It allows you to index files, mail, etc and search by field names such as From:, to:, & date. – uSlackr – 2012-03-08T14:38:40.823
+1 on cygwin and bash ... they are painful to use on windows, but a lot less painful than not having them at all – dreftymac – 2009-07-22T17:37:14.307
+1 for Windows search. Could not live without it. No need to add any extra metadata. – uSlackr – 2012-03-08T14:39:20.167
That makes sense, but how do you search when the content is mp3 files or images? Tagging allows you to actually attach descriptions to non-editable files. – dreftymac – 2009-07-22T17:28:04.360
@dreftymac:
Cygwin: find /path/to/base/dir -type f -name *.mp3 | grep fileNameRegEx; or create a index of mp3 files withlocate32.exe. – nik – 2009-07-22T17:37:45.617Problem is when you start to get a thousand hits, because you couldn't narrow down that nice query of yours... But then most often it works just fine – Ivo Flipse – 2009-07-22T19:15:56.300