Tiger Tweaks Could Kill Folders

Tiger Tweaks Could Kill Folders



Thanks to new UI tools in the latest version of Mac OS X, stuffy old habits like organizing files into folders become obsolete. Welcome to the new desktop metaphor: search. By Abby Christopher and Mike Faden.

An interesting thought. Although machines & drives are much faster, in the past I have run into situations where having several thousand files in 1 directory drug the system to a crawl. Although we are probably up to a point where it would take 10s of thousands, possibly 100s of thousands, of files to seriously impact system performance. However how quickly would we quickly catch up to that with ripping/buying music, digital camera, etc.