Drive - More Meta Information for Files and "Folders"

[tuefekci]

Hello, I don't know if there are plans already somewhere, so if this is a duplicate, just close it.

So to the main topic, I would love for drive to have more meta information available especially date but the more, the better if it does not complicate everything too much.

Why would this be helpfully I depend on how you use drive, but I find it hard to clean it for example, so I often tend to basically remove everything of course you could work with meta tags in the name field, but I personally find that makes it more complicated everywhere else, so my favorite would be to add file date and file size at least add functionality separately to get the meta information.

Of course, you could separately write everything into base as well which I probably will pivot to for the moment, but this is also unreliable if something goes wrong, or I will place meta files beside the file but stop gate solutions are stupid, and I think the backend should have file sizes and dates already even if the files are in a database there should still be simple ways to obtain these values.

I would love for this to be implemented, but I will not be angry if there is really something standing in the way of it, or it would use a lot of resources, but at least from my viewport it looks more like an oversight than a technical problem.

Also, a big thanks to Deta for saving us all costs while we develop and test stuff!

[jnsougata]

Yes deta drive supports folder. If you want to add a file to a folder just add the folder name followed by / at the start of the file name.
Exmaple: your file name is test.png and folder name is images. what you can do is set file name to images/test.png while uploading to drive and it will add images folder to the drive it the folder doesn't exist else it will just add the file test.png inside the folder.

[tuefekci]

Sorry my headline is a bit misleading, I meant add meta information for folders not add folders.

[jnsougata]

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[abdelhai]

hi, thanks for the feedback! we will take note of this for our next release. seems useful.

using base sound like a good "work-around".