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File not found - Please tell me this is a joke...
magic:
--- Quote from: xrunner on October 01, 2021, 01:49:15 am ---Like when he got a new PC, he wanted to know how we'd get his gmail over to the new PC. He was really worried about it. I said we don't have to move the messages because they are .. well ... look just trust me on this OK? I wasn't about to try to explain it because it would have been to no avail.
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I have once been asked about the details of that apparent miracle by a tinfoil-hatter but didn't dare to answer :scared:
(Which is to say, most communications protocols people use are frankly garbage from a privacy standpoint).
Miyuki:
--- Quote from: CJay on October 01, 2021, 06:38:16 am ---I work 'in IT', we've got professors, doctors, highly qualified engineers, people who speak to and advise governments etc.
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I also have some experience with professors and so (governments ::) )
And when mechanical engineers use computers it is terrible, local folders, the shared folders it is all one big mess
Don't know how nontechnical are, I expect it to be unbelievable worse
But still, it is surprising to see CAD persons have problems with handling computer
magic:
I have no problem with people who grew up in the past millennium and never caught up.
But kids that live glued up to their spyphones and never stop to consider where the data go, that's a different matter.
Even my mother understands basics of file storage and has over 1TB of downloaded junk stashed on her computer :D
Kleinstein:
There was a time before a directory tree. With smaller discs there was no need to have subdirectories.
The directory tree is also only one possibility to organize the data on a disc. Many of us are used to it, but there are alternatives like a more data-base form. Especially with SSDs do allow a more random access. In some aspects the file system is still from the times of magnetic tapes.
GlennSprigg:
--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on October 01, 2021, 01:38:25 am ---Reminds me of my dad, he has no clue about directory structures and no matter how much I try to explain it to him he just can't figure it out. The whole concept of "where did the file go" is a mystery to him. He has a screensaver with photos that he adds to but in his mind, it only works with his camera and not his phone, because if he plugs his phone into the computer the pictures don't show up in the same place so the process of putting them in the screensaver folder is broken.
Crazy to see even young people not grasping this concept though, but it comes to show just how bad this whole "make everything cloud based" society is. They just grew up without having a second thought as to where their data is. Kind of scary.
I'm the opposite I want to know exactly where my data is. I don't like when programs start storing things like settings in some location I don't know. I want to be in full control, and make sure I am backing up the data correctly.
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YES!!!... That's exactly how I feel !! Computers are/were supposed to make it easy & friendly for even non-technical people, so they tried to use
friendly words like 'My', as in 'My Computer', and 'My Documents etc etc... Aargh!! I HATE trying to explain to some people why/where there files actually went,
to places like... "C:\ProgramFiles\User\Fred-Bloggs\Local\Documents\MyPhotos\blaablaa", or "My Computer\My Documents\My Music" or what ever!! :P
I KNOW why they TRY to do this, especially for multiple Users signing on to a PC. But very few 'laymen' really understand!.
I've always taught my family/kids to simply create their OWN Directory/Subdirectories in the Drive/Partition of their choice, and structure it Simply, for all their
photos, music, letters etc. And to back up that one master directory when ever you need. My 'Missus' has taken a long time to understand though... :palm:
She has thousands of Embroidery files, that I find scattered everywhere, on multiple drives, even 'Recovery' partitions & Root Directories!! She opens '.zip'
files, without contemplating/remembering where they are being extracted to!! (Sigh...) So I build for her the likes of a Master Directory called "Embroidery"...
And off that, Sub-Directories like 'Butterflies', or 'Football', or 'Birds'/'Disney'/'lace' etc etc, and Sub-Directories off of those... She's finally 'getting' it !! :-+
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