Microsoft file system 'sucks'! Is there a 3d virtual file system out there?

Question

It would be a 3 Dimensional VIRTUAL filing cabinet with drawers that opened, and inside were your files. Each drawer would be labeled. IS THERE SUCH AN 'ANIMAL' ? And if not why not?
I asked this last week but I may get some more info on a Sunday!

Answer 1

The one for X still exists I believe. Though it's a great deal of overhead.

So you'll have to switch to Linux or a Mac to try it. The Mac OS X is about as close as what you are asking for in a default OS installation.

As for why there are not many efforts in a visual representation of filing. There have been 3D file system overlays designed. That is part of the problem it is an overlay. So it is inefficient. Most people don't like to mouse that much. Me I have literally at least 10,000 files on my machine that I generated. I want to be able to select certain files or ranges of files for various operations. Your file representation would make that impossible to do. If I am moving 150 files out of a dir that contains 400 files and not using something like the ext to do so, then that would be literally hundreds of operations to do the same thing with the file cabinet view. Something that would take 5 mins with a more standard view. I am also concerned about extensions, file size, comparing these and such. I want to see relitive file dates and a great many other pieces of information about the files. Again not going to happen in a file cabinet.

What would work and isn't a bad idea is a tag scheme sitting over the files system. You can tag in standard view which would be the equivalent of putting the file in a cabinet but you could file the same file in dozens of catagories this way and still have standard views where most people will do the builk of thier work.

Writing such a system for a Microsoft OS would be a nightmare. There is no way to add such support to the kernel. Nor does the file system itself allow for such growth. Journaling file systems such as ext3 could easilly be modified to support tagging. The kernel is readily availible so you could once you developed such a system compile it into your Linux/BSD/Unix kernel and use it.

Microsoft is the generic one size fits all approach. Linux gives you a one size fits all but also gives you a tailor in case you don't like that style. If your serious about it, email me and I'll help you make contact with people who can write such a thing. The tagging aspect is already expressed in several Linux apps and all over the web. Embedding it in the file system is a logical continuation.

Answer 2

No such thing in Windows, there was one for X system, it puts alot on graphics card and not easy to create one that's easier then what's here now.

Answer 3

some laptop's are no longer constrained to actual reminiscence and can boost into digital reminiscence (area on your perplexing disk). residing house windows can enhance this disbursed digital area while it needs to. do no longer problem, the technique would not take long, and issues would take longer to function mutually because it is happening - circulate get your self a cup of coffee and it could have finished once you come back.

Answer 4

I think you have confused a file system with a "file browser" (ms) or "finder" (mac).

there are soooo many different views of a standard fat-32, hfs,...

Answer 5

BSD and GNU/ Linux (800 versions/Distros) has several file systems. ReiserFS is transportable. But, haven't see a 3D version of any filesystem!

Searched on http://sourceforge.net ? or, http://google.com/linux ?

Answer 6

Get a mac

Answer 7

ha no. Maybe eventually......there isn't one yet because that would take enormous 3d graphics power to pull that off.

Answer 8

nope you are lumbered