Performance shock

[Robert L Parker]

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 23:42 -0400, poptones wrote:
> Robert L Parker Wrote: 
> > 
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> > > I cannot believe in all that time you have never...
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> > > opened a folder containing a few thousand images
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> > > selected a few hundred from the middle of the list...
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> > > press "delete" or otherwise moved the files with the window still
> 
> > > open.
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> > 
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> > I honestly can't see why anyone would want to do that. 
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> > 
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> > You have 1000 images or so moved in from an archive. Linux and windows
> > may deal with long filenames just fine, but cameras still call every
> > photo something like DSC00032.JPG, DSC00033.JPG, DSC00034.JPG...
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> > 
> 
> > Try using a command line to sort your subjects by pose, or even to sort
> > your files by subject...

It is very easy to operate on groups of sequential files using the
command line. So easy that I'd never consider using a gui to operate on
them. In 3 years using KDE I never bothered using Konqueror for file
manipulation. Now using Ubuntu I'm still just as happy to ignore
Nautilus. In Linux of course I have the choice to do just that. I'd be
trying to avoid having folders with thousands of files in them though.

Bob