Monday, August 31, 2009

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.

File management systems create, enter, change, query and produce reports on one file at a time. Most electronic document management systems solve a particular problem of managing, finding and tracking documents. 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.

ACS has developed a user-friendly File Management System that accumulates all the files on a computer, via a user selected path, throws away the folders and displays all of the files by extension on one screen! The selectable paths enable the user to gather filenames from numerous possible locations in one pass-literally from any source connected to their computer or through a LAN.

Once the user-selected path has been established, the computer finds the files along the selected branch(s) of the entire file system, ranging from data bases to thumb drives. Nothing is destroyed, changed, created or entered-it simply collects all the designated filenames! The filenames are then sorted and organized by extension type. An extension list shows only those extensions that one or more files were found within the selected path. The number of filenames range from 1 to tens of thousands of filenames.

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.

It is safe to say we all create and save the files in some folder somewhere. We have been doing this since we begin storing data on a computer. We label folders and filenames with short, less than decipherable names to help us remember what folder we stored the file in for safe keeping. Folders past five levels become unmanageable when looking for files the standard method. The files never move and stay exactly where they were put in the first place but the filename is organized and sorted 10 different ways. The computer program being described was created and patented by ACS.

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 over loaded dresser draw onto the table and start sorting it into piles. With a computerize machine to sort, count and package the money, it saves us time! Banks use them daily and wouldn't consider anything less. Similar, this is why ACS created this time-saving File Management System to locate all the filenames, associate the filename with the extension, regardless of the file content, and stack them into visible piles for easy accessibility. With a double-click of the mouse, you can load the file and launch the application filename immediately.

Every time a user loads a document, plays a video, views a picture or listens to music, you are operating the computer faster. The approach of saving considerable computer user time is what makes this program valuable. Allowing the computer to do what it does best, and faster, reduces the user input of operating a computer. The user can simply click the mouse or stoke a key. This File Management System can save you time every time you click on a filename! - 16890

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