hi, > Relying on a method that was most appropriate for the '80s microcomputer is > crap. One expects something more sophisticated today.
sophisticated means something like filetype recognition. HOW that is done is another issue altogether... i believe in a single pass systsm which records the file-type ina .filetypes file in the directory. if new files are in that directory they get added.... if they get deleted, they get removed. just using a filename extension to say what type of file it is is basic, crass and rude. certainly, in this case, the method of the '80's microcomputer' beats the method of the main system of the new millennium > A well organised storage medium should only have files of a suitable type > anyway. Unless people like saving .wav in the image files drawer of a gfx > program etc. once again...the 80's machine wins out by giving you choice everytime. do you really want images/ documents/movies to go into 'My Documents'? or , even worse, downloaded to 'my desktop' ? :-( Voyager has already got this capped nicely with the mime-types system which allows different filetypes to be downloaded automatically to different directories. instead of always putting downloads into the default location (and the annoying directory changing shuffle that requesters always bring upon you) alan
