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July 31, 2013, 02:21:24 AM
Last edit: July 31, 2013, 04:35:10 AM by markm |
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Also, look at trash-can folders, you can un-trash things, the folder remembers where they came from, doesn't it?
(If not, why not? Crappy cheap poorly designed trash-can?)
Backup directories should be the same. You drag and drop many files from many coin-data-directories into your backup directory, it should remember who dragged and dropped it (you, an automated script, some hacker, or whatever), what it was called (was it renamed or plain dragged and dropped without filling in a new name to drop it as) and so on.
So you can just mousehover over each wallet.dat in your dropbox and a tooltip tells you where that specific file named wallet.dat came from and when, so you see at a glance which coin's directory it was dragged from...
All of which is a GUI or a GUI-operating-system problem not somethign each application/program should have to re-invent from scratch for itself.
A difference between a directory and a folder could then be things like the fact the folder is, under the hood, a directory with metadata files about each of the data files in it, saying where they came from and gosh knows what else, whereas a folder looks like it just has data objects in it that it automagically knows all kinds of useful things about, such as where they came from, what they used to be called back there, all kinds of under the hood stuff...
-MarkM-
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