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Hierarchical file systems lack expressiveness and are awkward in places.

Hierarchical file systems made the most sense back in the days of the spatial desktop metaphor [0] pre-OS X classic Mac OS Finder. The ability to organize your files in a spatial manner and have the system preserve the one-to-one relationship between a file and its (virtual) physical location within the system was what made it work.

As soon as the browser metaphor (or navigational) file manager [1] took over (owing much of its success to the web browser), this relationship was lost and the system became unwieldy.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/apple/2003/04/finder/3/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Navigational_file...




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