Hello, Is there any easy way to move items to design folders in bulk? I go an try to add them to a folder individually and a good chunk of them never get added. I am hoping for a better solution to move them as doing each one is time consuming and if it only adds some of them I need to go back and do the left out designs all over again (and sometimes again). thank you!
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This Feature has been a disappointment since day one. We asked for folders, we got marginally functional tags that seem to get corrupted or just fail more often than not.
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it is in theory nice but it does not work. it would be nice if you could click and select multiple files and then drag to move. it just is so hard to find anything you have sometimes.
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The bad news is the tags in the gfui are really bad, the good news is disk space is cheap these days.
If you have projects you want to revisit keep the SVGs and settings somewhere else that can be organized in a way that makes sense to you.
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All projects can be bookmarked. You could theoretically make folders of bookmarks in your browser to organize all of your projects.
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I personally just accepted the GF UI being a simple print driver, and store everything locally. I just upload when needed. It takes seconds to select the settings.
If I am doing a bunch of the same thing, then it’s convenient that it will be there when I open the UI again, but otherwise - again - it’s just a print driver for me. Has no value beyond that.
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I like the idea of bookmarks because it has the settings preserved. However, I still need the visual reference from the dashboard to search for a thing I can’t remember the version of.
What I’d like to know is how I can hide all the purchased/premium files I know I won’t use anytime soon? I’ve tried moving them into folders, but an image of the file still takes up space on the dashboard. No good in reducing clutter.
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The problem is that they’re not really folders. You’re not moving the item to a folder, you’re just assigning a category to it. What is displayed in the interface as a folder is really just a filter, to restrict the view to only those files in a particular category. When you haven’t clicked on a “folder” to filter the list, you are shown every file, including both categorized and uncategorized items.
I’d much prefer actual folders. Or they could give us a special “show uncategorized files” filter to hide anything you’ve not assigned to a category (“folder”).
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I suspected they weren’t real folders; they acted more like the early Macintosh “folders” of Flat File System fame.
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You’ve been here long enough to know the answer to that.
It’s been broken this long why would they worry about it now? It was broken the day it came out; we told them exactly what was wrong and yet here we are years later and we still have the same dashboard that is full of flaws.
Then you add in premium subscriptions which were originally intended to raise funds to drive improvement and software developments and we haven’t seen any of that development except for things that sell more premium or sell designs in the catalog. This was also predicted.
Fixing folders will not make them a penny and so I would not hold your breath.
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I am absolutely grateful for the original Glowforge concept and organization, but since they started taking in investors, they appear to be simply driven by profit. I have no issue with that, we live in a capitalist world. I accept it and am still grateful for the wonderful tool I have.
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Country. There are other ways of running an economy.
And it doesn’t have to be like this, it’s possible to both be profitable and innovative, they seem to have forgotten that second part.
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Not to further devolve the thread, but I’d also lay blame at the investor model. If we weren’t converted to such a debt driven model after our gold standard sell off, having something successful would make something profitable.
Today, however, no one has any money so it’s all debt. Even a smash hit success can still be a failure. (Points to summer blockbuster movies that “fail” at 700 million $$)
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Shady accounting in Hollywood is practically the norm.
Here’s a link. Fair warning it has some salty language.
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