CANT DELETE TAGSPACES SOFTWARE
CANT DELETE TAGSPACES CODE

So instead of fighting each other asking TagSpace developers to support only our preferred storage solution (even if that makes the application completely useless for people with different needs), we should request TagSpaces developers to provide different storage methods for people with different needs. I already wrote the pros and cons of each approach in this link so I won't repeat myself: I think the people who wrote some of the previous comments don't take into account that there isn't a silver bullet which fixes everybody problems: I acknowledge storing tag information into the filename is the ideal solution for a lot of people because it's very simple and cross-platform, but renaming a file every time we add/remove a tag makes TagSpaces completely useless for developers like me.

CANT DELETE TAGSPACES CODE

I also feel bad that I can't offer to code for it myself anytime soon.

I know this is an annoying case, and I'm not sure whether it's an edge case. TagSpaces on computer A must either show a reference to file C even though the file's not on disk, or it must gracefully omit file C from file lists. The sidecar files are shared and must tag all three files. Computer X syncs files A and B computer Y syncs files A and C. The interesting problem is what Dropbox calls 'Selective Sync' - not every Dropbox file is on every computer. So I'm looking forward to the sidecar json files in TagSpaces.įor what it's worth, I plan to use TagSpaces with Dropbox files, and I'm just going to share the sidecar files in Dropbox as well. That pushes me towards Tabbles instead, but they suffer from being Windows-only. I realized I really wanted to merge my Evernote system with my filesystem, and I wasn't going to be able to give up the filenames. Evernote notes don't have filenames at all, so I don't lose anything by giving up control of my filenames in TagSpaces.īut I couldn't commit.

I came to TagSpaces looking for an Evernote replacement, and in that sense it's perfect. If you can solve this problem it would be a big win.

So, as I said in my previous comment, there is no silver bullet which fixes every problem, each storage system (filename, sideload file, database) has its pros and cons and, depending on how do you plan to use the tagging software, there will be a storage system which will fulfill your needs better than the other systems.

CANT DELETE TAGSPACES SOFTWARE

So it would be really useful for me tagging those art assets (so I can locate them easily with a quick search) without changing their filenames:Īrt assets are usually referenced in code using their relative path to the 'root folder' of the project, so if the tagging software changes the filename of one of those art assets, the code won't be able to find that asset because it won't have any longer the expected filename. Assuming the comment from Alex Koukarine was directed to me (since I said in a previous comment I was a developer), I will reply that a software is not composed only by code, but also by other types of assets.Īs a developer, I would never add tags to my code files, but I am a game developer and I have to work with a lot of art assets in my daily work.

Cant delete tagspaces