getdepot / depot

Depot - MacOS app for managing 3D model content and resources.
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Library folder/container - use human readable structure / naming. #21

Open sammcj opened 1 year ago

sammcj commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

At present when you add files to Depot it moves them to another location and renames them with UUIDs, I can see how this makes sense for the application - but for the end user who often has to browse the filesystem to access / change models etc... it's not very accessible.

Additionally because the directory structure is completely flat - it's very hard to find what you're looking for.

This makes using files stored in Depot very difficult to find when you're importing them to slicers, modelling software or uploading to your printer etc...

With using the container / application specific data folder it's actually become a little more messy for me than just managing folders and subfolders.

e.g.

Currently Depots directory structure looks like:

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And there's no way to open the directory inside the container from the library view:

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Describe the solution you'd like

Additional context

For example, here is what my non-Depot directory/file structure looks like:

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destari commented 1 year ago
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destari commented 1 year ago

In the resources section, you can right click on any file and show in finder, or export the file (basically extracting it from the Depot library). Is this not enough or not in the correct place for it?

sammcj commented 1 year ago

Ohh yeah I guess that works - I'd probably expect it to be on the main model folder but that's fine for that problem.