[tde-users] Re: And another thing

said Felix Miata: | dep via tde-users composed on 2021-05-24 15:24 (UTC): | > No idea if this is a feature request or what. | > | > I'm dealing with an enormous directory that contains numerous | > subdirectories many of which contain subdirectories of their own, and | > so on. For some uses it would be very good to be able to tell at a | > glance which ones contain subdirectories. From the foggy distant past | > I remember some version of something wherein the icons changed color | > or had an asterisk or something when there were subdirectories | > present. | > | > So. | > | > Does anyone know of a file manager that has this feature? Or . . . | > | > Is there perhaps an icon set that would enable this feature? Or . . . | > | > Might this be added in some future release of TDE? Or . . . | > | > Is it just plain impossible with the current state of things? | | I don't know the answer to exactly what you asked, but you may not need | one if you give ncdu a try. Thanks, but what I was hoping for was something that let me find out at a glance. I can of course learn whether a directory has subdirectories. Explaining what I need it for might help: I have a directory containing well over 100,000 news photos I made over many years. They are sorted by story. A few years ago I thought it might help to make overarching directories containing similar stories. The process never got completed -- there were too many stories and too little time to devote to the project, and many stories defied categorization. So now I need a way to get a sense of which directories are single-story ones and which are just directories of stories, in a way that I can literally scroll and look for likely places a particular picture is hidden. Something like Michael described, only it isn't working here so apparently a box is unticked somewhere. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://www.athensnews.com/opinion/columns/the_view_from_mudsock_heights/