[ubuntu-za] Notes tab on file properties

[Robin Bownes]

On 06/02/2012 11:47 AM, tim at cybersmart.co.za wrote:
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> From: "Johan Mynhardt" <johanmynhardt at gmail.com>
> To: <robin at bownes.co.za>, "Ubuntu South African Local Community" 
> <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: [ubuntu-za] Notes tab on file properties
> Date: Sat, Jun 2, 2012 10:40
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> Taken into context that you mentioned these notes were on photographs...
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> >  How can such a decision, that can negatively impact potentially millions of
> >  people be made and executed in this manner?
> >  How can I rely on using Ubuntu if this kind of thing has already happened,
> >  and can therefore happen again at any time in the future? How do I know
> >  which features I can safely use, and which I can't?
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> As a photographer (amateur) I have the following comments:
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> There are professional OpenSource photo management/workflow
> applications that does just that.
> A file manager does just that - manage files.
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> You can't blame the file manager for loosing such data, as a file
> manager at minimum will only work with the file's properties that is
> part of the underlying OS's file system. Anything more than that is a
> feature which nobody should take for granted.
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> You can't blame a vehicle manufacturing company going green when you
> just bought a 1000 barrels of fuel...
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> -- 
> Johan Mynhardt
> I tend to agree. Although the change to nautilus is strange&  unexpected, there are far better tools for the job that is described than a file manager.
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While I do appreciate the time that you all have taken to reply to my 
query, I must point out that I am experiencing much more criticism and 
defensiveness, than I am assistance. This is something that I have 
witnessed before on this list. Quite frankly, it does nothing to attract 
me to the open source community or products.

As I've stated elsewhere, I use Ubuntu in preference over MS products 
because up until now, it has provided me with an environment that has 
allowed me to get the maximum work done with the minimum of problems. At 
present my problems are as follows:

 1. The initial, relatively minor (if time-consuming) problem of
    replacing, or trying to figure out a way to re-access all of the
    lost data that I had stored in those file comments.
 2. The much larger potential problem that all of us should be worried
    about. If data-storing features (particularly) can be removed
    without warning, then there can be absolutely no confidence in using
    the product.
 3. I am asking a question with a view to getting both an answer on how
    this can happen, and with a view to getting assistance. All I am
    getting so far in response is defensiveness. Strangely, those who
    are being so defensive are also telling me that I cannot rely on
    Ubuntu features being present in the future. As for assistance, I've
    been pointed to one post. The information in that post, I have found
    to be a mixture of inaccurate (I have found no Notes option wherever
    I right-click in the file manager window), and rather technical. I
    am a photographer, not a Linux expert.
 4. I have a number of people telling me that other tools would
    have/will work better than the course of action that I have used.
    However, again as I've said elsewhere, this option was the most
    practical for my circumstances and at the time that I began using it.

Is there please anyone out there who can firstly deal with my query on 
the level of trusting that current Ubuntu features that I may use will 
still be there in the future, and secondly, provide me with 
straight-forward assistance in remedying my current problem. i.e. 
accessing & using the information in the notes/comments fields of my files?

This is put forward as an Ubuntu community. I would appreciate some 
community assistance, rather than being attacked for asking challenging 
questions that actually effect us all.

Robin

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