Q: wrong concept for folders - leapfrogged by everyone else
Can somebody help me. Am I missing out on something: Can I find a way to create real folders somewhere and can I share them with somebody?
I want to work with Apple Technology, but I do not like to see Google, Microsoft and Dropbox leapfrog Apple.
I have worked with DOS since 1981
I have worked with Mac's since 1984, yes.
Editor of MacWorld Denmark from apx. 1998 and the years following. http://www.dr.dk/Videnskab/IT/2006/04/18133326.htm
Since late the same decade I have occasionally worked with windows, when forced, by people I had to help as a consultant.
I had severe fights with windows consultants teaching their users to store Word documents in the MS Word Program Folder, Excel files in their Excel Program Folder etc.
- Causing documents to be deleted when deleting the old version of word when upgrading to the next version.
- Making backup of data a distress.
- Causing complete confusion when trying to find something related to a project like fx "Campaign for Coca Cola 1999, summer" which would be spread over the 5-10 different Program Folders the documents was created with.
Now Apple is forcing us to do so.
And I can not even share a folder with anyone in my family or with a co-worker. I have to share single documents which will hang in top of his/her area regarding one single app.
I am wondering: This is forcing us to work like DOS and early Windows users did, because it was a messy operating system they worked with, and because the cumbersome way to create folders in DOS taught them terrible data discipline.
What is Apple thinking here?
This has kept me from using the iCloud apps from the very first moment.
If we as users are to use iCloud a minimum requirement must definitely be:
- Real folder structure with folders within folders.
- A mix of document types within folders - probably also documents not readable by the iCloud version iWorks Apps.
- Access to the iCloud folders from any App on you Mac.
- The folders must be shareable like in Dropbox and all the other competitors that have been around for years.
And then probably also
- Setting access in a manageable way, hopefully an apple way, leapfrogging the (absolutely OK way Dropbox is doing it)
- Versioning and roll back like in dropbox.
- Etc. etc.
Going back from System 1 anno 1984 with and the later HFS and HFS+ way of organizing and sharing - yes I had AppleShare Server in 1998 - is not recommendable.
AND ... what I suggest here is hopefully less than what Apple will give us. Remember: Henry Ford assumed:
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
I am maybe asking for faster horses here. But Apple is giving me a donkey sitting beside me, not even dragging the wagon.
Come on: I have tried to look at the news regarding the renewed iCloud, but I am not able to read between the lines. Will Apple come out in front and learn me that the demands I am trying to put forward here are backward. Will Apple show me some more than just my "faster horse" demands. Please keep on revolutionizing the way we work ... not holding us back.
MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), iCloud version of iWorks (beta)
Posted on Aug 30, 2014 6:35 PM
