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is there a foss project to automatically sort files (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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do you know that minecraft mod that autosorts your inventory? is there are project that can autosort a messy file system and put all of your files of a similar nature into a well organised, well named order. obviously this would require ai that could do image, language, and audio recognition but is there anything in the works? i can imagine this would speed up distrohopping by 10x. ai powered file management

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does this "obviously" have to use AI? I can see a tool that sorts files into folders based on file extensions, modification dates and/or metadata could get the work done.

And if organising files by content (e.g. "my zoo trip", "meetings with Xenia") is that important, doing it manually seems like a better idea because accuracy is presumably important.

I don't really see the distro hopping argument either. Even if you don't share your home directory between installs, presumably you copy over your files as directories rather than individually pouring them into one super folder?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I think a lot of folks with very limited IT knowledge think AI will solve things that have been solved for decades.

The issue is availability and elitism. A noob user doesnt know how to find this stuff, google is so rotten that its not help anymore and pros often just shit on them instead of making a comprehensive wiki.