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1. gizajob · 1791037920 · focus · HN ↗

   > The concept of "filesystem" is an increasingly weak concept.

   Yeah because Apple has broken that idea over and over and over. The anti-unix unix.

   1. someonebaggy · 1791039017 · focus · HN ↗

      It's nothing to do with evil old Apple and everything to do with phones being hard to type on, and search becoming better.

      1. gizajob · 1791039691 · focus · HN ↗

         iPhoto. iTunes. iCloud. iMovie. Notes.

         None use the file system in anything like the way their unix underpinning would have files be understood or organised for users. Hard to even know where your files are without asking the app to deal with them one by one. Predated phones and even Spotlight doesn’t do a good job of showing/knowing where your files are.

         1. someonebaggy · 1791039883 · focus · HN ↗

            And why should they? I don't know where my browser cache is either. Or my rows in my sqlite database. Or the system clock configuration. Actually I do know: They're stored on the hard drive.

            Files aren't physical.

            1. dankobgd · 1791040018 · focus · HN ↗

               i know where mine is, so i can clear it myself if i care.
            2. gizajob · 1791040444 · focus · HN ↗

               Diff two iPhoto libraries to check if they contain the duplicate photos

               1. someonebaggy · 1791041040 · focus · HN ↗

                  On the phone itself?

                  1. gizajob · 1791044166 · focus · HN ↗

                     On the filesystem-enabled device called Mac commonly used for semi-pro operations like file management and backup.
               2. rovr138 · 1791041860 · focus · HN ↗

                  Create a new library,

                  import the images from both libraries (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;119920" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;119920)

                  View &gt; Utilities &gt; Duplicates

                  or use jdupes or czkawka on both directories.

                  1. gizajob · 1791044226 · focus · HN ↗

                     Great tip, but also: exactly.
            3. skydhash · 1791042135 · focus · HN ↗

               &gt; And why should they? I don&#x27;t know where my browser cache is either.

               This makes it a pain where you want to have a custom configuration. Like moving the cache to a ramdisk. My NVME disk is plenty fast, but rarely I want my browser cache to persist across a reboot. It&#x27;s a pain to move the cache to &#x2F;tmp&#x2F;firefox-cache as an example (&#x2F;tmp is a ramdisk on my laptop). Also a pain to backup profiles.

            4. bigstrat2003 · 1791045025 · focus · HN ↗

               So which is it? Is Apple not responsible for ditching the filesystem, or is it a good thing that Apple has ditched the filesystem? You can&#x27;t have it both ways.
            5. creativeSlumber · 1791089249 · focus · HN ↗

               Your browser cache is a cache. You don&#x27;t care if it goes away. On the other hand, your pictures you do care. That&#x27;s the only copy.
            6. bguebert · 1791162127 · focus · HN ↗

               It&#x27;s important to know so they can own their own photos and not like feel like they can&#x27;t cancel a cloud hosting service that keeps increasing the cost because they will lose them all.

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