Re: OT Virtual folders (Vista)
- From: Centrion <spam_this@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:35:30 +1100
faeychild wrote:
I read this
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For Windows Explorer, type the author of a document and save the search
results as a virtual file folder of that author's works. This is a
paradigm shift from Windows XP; now you can create folders of similar
content, even if the content resides within different physical folders on
the system's hard drive. There's no longer a need within Windows Vista to
move files among various folders in the directory.
ref http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/os/0,1000001098,39284636,00.htm
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So the search function saves the results as directory full of links
I'm not a command line expert but surely this is (virtually) a "find"
command one liner.
Not quite - but you can achieve similar results.
And Microsoft has just invented it!! Gosh
Nope. Actually Apple did it in OSX. Apple's version hooks into Spotlight
(their desktop search engine...think "beagle") and allows you to create
a "smart folder" based on any number of criteria (such as key words, last
opened/saved/etc date, file type, etc) and then dynamically updates the
smart folder content in real time :)
Here's a screen shot from my Mac lappy:
http://gray.net.au/images/smart-folder.png
Cheers,
James
--
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