Timeline for How to point to a file in a different folder on iOS/iPadOS?
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| Jun 25, 2023 at 20:46 | answer | added | Jason | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 11:55 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | The „what have you tried and researched“ rule is also valid for AD. Don‘t know the detailed rules on SO but IMHO untried ideas and thoughts are not the same as things one has tried. But anyway, you got one downvote, this happens to all of us now and then. | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 11:10 | comment | added | John | @nohillside I have now moved my ideas for a solution into an answer. However, I think that it can make sense to provide such ideas for solutions in the question since it shows that the person asking has done his or her research and thought about it. It is actually recommended on SO to state what has been tried and what research has been done. I think this should definitely not be a reason to downvote a question. Downvoting a question, especially without leaving a comment, is a pretty aggressive move. | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 9:55 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 9:54 | history | edited | John | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 7:58 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | Also, I‘m not questioning your intentions. But based on past experience with AD, questions listening ideas and options instead of focusing on the problem to be solved tend to attract bad answers and downvotes. | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 7:50 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | Voting is anonymous (even to moderators) for good reasons. The "downvote with a comment" discussion has come up on Meta (both on AD and overall), and the general opinion seems to be that downvote comments can't be enforced. Also, if you look at the purpose of comments, "explaining downvotes" is not one of the reasons. | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 6:56 | comment | added | John | @nohillside On a related note, as you are a moderator, I think that downvote should not be anonymous and they should require a reason, both enforced by StackExchange. But maybe this is a discussion for meta. | |
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 6:46 | comment | added | John | I think that almost all the important apps I use allow to store their files in a directory I choose. I organize all my files in folders on iCloud Drive. | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 6:45 | comment | added | John | Well, I find the question to be quite narrow since it addresses a very specific need I have. The list of possible solutions was necessary in my opinion so that people understand better what I want (since it is clear to me that the Files app neither supports symlinks nor aliases). I‘m not asking for opinions but for ideas to solve my problem. | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 6:41 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | Do the apps you use on the iPad allow you to put their files into a directory you choose, or do they "insist" on storing them in one app-specific directory? | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 6:39 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | Based on experience, focused questions work better than broad ones, and questions listing potential solutions lead to answers commenting on those instead of actually providing answers (there even is a "close" reasons related to this: "This question is likely to be answered with opinions rather than facts and citations. It should be updated so it will lead to fact-based answers"). | |
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| Jan 31, 2023 at 22:18 | comment | added | Allan | @vomako - I see you've experienced what I call the "down vote horde." Don't let it get to you. Your question is actually a good one...the answer though.... +1 for the question! | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 22:13 | history | edited | John | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 31, 2023 at 21:45 | answer | added | Allan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 21:36 | comment | added | John | Someone downvoted this question. It would be really helpful if people who downvote would leave a constructive comment that tells me what should be improved. Only downvoting is not very constructive. I saw that on AskDifferent, people vote up rarely but quickly down. In my opinion this is not a constructive and motivating environment. | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 21:07 | history | edited | John | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 31, 2023 at 19:42 | comment | added | John | Yes, for a few projects. However, I have many and I organize my projects in folders and subfolders, i.e., I make use of a hierarchy. Hierarchies are very well suited to manage complexity and to get a structure. Tags cannot be hierarchically organized. „Thus my central theme is that complexity frequently takes the form of hierarchy and that hierarchic systems have some common properties independent of their specific content. Hierarchy, I shall argue, is one of the central structural schemes that the architect of complexity uses.“ From The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert Simon | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 13:23 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | Especially for projects, tags with the project name would work quite well. | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 12:49 | comment | added | John | I have added more information regarding the use case | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 12:49 | history | edited | John | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 31, 2023 at 11:59 | comment | added | Mateusz Szlosek | Can you describe the use case? Are you working in Files.app and do some operations on files? Do you want to have quick access in "file picker" from different app? | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 11:49 | history | asked | John | CC BY-SA 4.0 |