ACS File Management System Uses Simplified Organizing Techniques

By Donald D. Lacy

A File Management System is more than migrating through the root-directory, then through many folders to the very end of the file system to load the file. The standard method of locating and loading files, along with the appropriate program, has been used for decades. To a computer user, this portion of the traditional management system should be eliminated.

Most electronic document management systems solve a particular problem of managing, finding and tracking documents. File management systems create, enter, change, query and produce reports on one file at a time. All of these types of systems require the user to act upon files, put them in a relational database for many users to access from many locations.

There is a simpler way. ACS describes a user-friendly File Management System that accumulates files on a computer via a user selected path. Then they throw away the folders and display the filenames, by extension, on one screen! The files can be obtained from any data storage device connected to the computer locally or through a LAN. The user can devise any path route(s) from the existing folder/file system and change it at will.

None of the files are created anew, changed, destroyed or entered. The computer will find all of the files along the user selected branch(s) of the entire filing system once the path is established. Filenames from the user selectable paths come from devices connected to the computer. There is an extension list that shows an extension type if one or more filenames are found via the designated path. The number of filenames per extension can range from a few to many thousands, especially picture filenames. Only the designated filenames are collected, sorted and organized by extension type.

The program finds all the designated filenames exceptionally fast. However, it will depend on the speed of your computer and the number of filenames to be collected. The user has only one screen from which to issue commands via a mouse or keyboard once the filenames have been collected. There are four identical columns that will display 160 filenames at one time. Behind each column of 40 filenames are hundreds to thousands of filenames. All are available by pressing the Up or Down arrow keyboard keys. The filenames are displayed by one of 10 different ways, each method user selectable.

Traditionally the user creates files and save them in a folder on their computer wherever they choose. This is what we all have been doing for decades. In fact, the user could put all of the files in one folder-it no longer matters. Let's face it. When we create folders past a depth of five levels, they become unmanageable and we have problems finding the files. You see, with the program created and patented by ACS locates the filenames, not the files. The files stay where they were put in the first place-they never move.

Some things have to be uniquely different. Take our coins and paper money, for example. Due to the necessity, we dump the money of the overloaded dresser draw onto a table and start sorting the coins into piles. Thank goodness someone invented a computerize machine to sort, count and package the money! Banks use them daily and wouldn't consider anything less. It saves everybody lots of time! Similar, this is why ACS created this application program to locate all the filenames, associate the filename by extension, regardless of the file content, and stack them into visible piles. With a double-click of the mouse, you can load the file and launch the application filename immediately. This is the method that was created to save a lot of time.

The approach of saving considerable computer user time is what makes this program valuable. Every time a user loads a document, plays a video, views a picture or listens to music, you are operating the computer faster. Allowing the computer to do what it does best, and faster, reduces the user input time of operating a computer. The user can simply click the mouse or stoke a key. This File Management Systems does save the computer user valuable time, every time a filename is clicked upon! - 26221

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