In article , Tony Cooper
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I suppose what you've said
means something to some people, but I put the same image in several
folders by using "Copy to:".

no, you made a copy. now you have *two* (or more) photos, one in each
folder.

Yes, I understood that from the get-go.

apparently not, based on what you've written.

you *cannot* have one photo in more than one folder. it is *not*
possible.

worse, *you* have to manage it. if you change one photo, you then have
to then re-copy them to all of the other folders, assuming you remember
where they all were.

Why would I do that?

why would you do what? why would you recopy them? because if you change
one the others are now out of sync.

Perhaps you constantly edit your photos. I
don't. The only time I edit a photo later is when I go back to one I
made a cropped 4" x 6" image from and make a cropped 8" x 10" or
similar. And, I do this from the uncropped original. There's only
one folder where the uncropped original stays.

it has nothing whatsoever to do with editing photos.

you really are out to lunch on this.

suppose you go to france and take a photo of your wife in front of the
eiffel tower with a nice sunset. that is three categories right there.
photos in france, photos of your wife and sunset photos. your way would
be to make 3 folders with a copy of the photo in each. if a photo has
multiple people or fits multiple categories, then it's even more
copies. that's insanity.

It sounds like you do a lot of things more complicated than necessary
and you need some computer crutch to allow you to do these things.

nonsense.

it sounds like you're stuck with the limitations that a file system
imparts and don't understand that there are much easier and better ways
to do things as well as being able to do many more things that were not
previously possible.

worse, you think everyone has to do it your way and should not want
anything better or want more features.

the fact that you bought a very capable tablet computer and have yet to
install any apps proves this. you're stuck in your ways and not wiling
to learn anything new.

Why do you assume other people do things that way? An indexed
database solves a problem that doesn't exist for some.

i don't assume anything. however, making things easier is something all
users want. except maybe you.

Don't bother to explain. I don't give a rat's ass if it's a copy of
the same file or an index system accessing the same file. I guess
that makes me a hater of higher level concepts.

translated: you don't want to be proven wrong yet again, so you'll just
start off on the attack.

No, it shows that I understood that from the get-go.

actually, it shows the opposite.

I understand my system. You are a hater of good systems. A systems
basher.

you don't understand it as well anywhere near as well as you think you
do, and i don't hate anything, nor was i bashing systems.

you are once again lying and twisting, trying to change this into
something it isn't.

it's the same for music. you can search music by various things, such
as artist, album, genre or title. you can also create playlists with
whatever you want in them. as with photos, one song can be in multiple
playlists (or no playlists).

playlists can also be smart and automatically update themselves based
on rules you define, such as least recently played, rated 4 * or higher
or music from the '60s or some other ruleset. if you play a song, it's
automatically removed from least recently played and if you downrate it
to 3* or less, it will be removed from the 4* or better playlist, all
automatically.

Whoop-de-doo.

whop-de-do right back.

none of that is possible with the file system alone.

I don't have music on my iPad unless it was pre-loaded from the
source. I haven't bothered to look.

Why are you nattering on about music? Who brought that up?

i brought it up because music is an *excellent* example how technology
has advanced beyond the limitations of directly accessing it in the
file system. photos are getting there.

but must have known that, because you 'understood it from the get-go'.
i guess you didn't understand anything.

you are fixated with the past and want to remain with those
limitations. fortunately, the rest of the world enjoys the additional
features and capabilities and ease of doing things that once required
more work.