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If some files are archives (or any encapsulation format/mechanism), then the count is false.

Files and folders are too generic and not generic enough. Some files aren't files, some files are ~folders. Actually most of those files are ~folders, they are containers for other kind of data and relationships. List of samples, Tree of names, Graph of points.

IIRC Plan9 tried to be a little more generic (in a good way), you could read/write/list anything even visual objects with one single mechanism.

We need maps to see/categorize/find data. Graphs of atoms that you can close (as in closure, any datum involved in the meaning of an operation has to be included) to transmit them in a consistent state. Moving files is wrong and everybody have seen it, it's full of hardcoded context.



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