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File management
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with File management, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Users must repeatedly export, prompt an LLM, and paste results back2025-05-21
- Users never learn what files are because platforms hide the file concept2025-05-04
- Searching photos, videos and PDFs by content is hard; requires custom scripting2024-09-13
- People save work but can't find it again because they don't understand folder structure2023-09-11
- Must repeatedly traverse the same directory routes because tools are out of sync2021-07-20
- File management is still a pain; retrieving documents is hard even with his scheme2017-08-18