I have to change cloud drive service yet again
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@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.
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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 Detail tab. There you will see a Tags under Description.
What? No way, when was that added? Freaking sweet.
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Of interest... TagSpaces
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/tag-youre-manage-files-linux-tagspaces/
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@scottalanmiller 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 Detail tab. There you will see a Tags under Description.
What? No way, when was that added? Freaking sweet.
I have no idea.
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Using tags in Windows.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/tag-files-in-windows/ -
mindblown
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@scottalanmiller 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 Detail tab. There you will see a Tags under Description.
What? No way, when was that added? Freaking sweet.
Windows 8.1 IIRC.
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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.
