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		dmd on Dec 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TMSU is a tool for tagging your files This quickly becomes cumbersome when you have dozens or hundreds of tags, and doesn't address tag values.

sbierwagen on Dec 12, 2014 [–]

The other problem is when a file can be in multiple categories: say you're sorting photos into folders based on who is in the photo.

alice.jpg goes into alice/, and bob.jpg goes into bob/, but where do you put groupshot.jpg?

xorcist on Dec 13, 2014 | [–]

Both?

Or a separate category?

Any grouping system would let you do both.

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