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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. 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. Most electronic document management systems solve a particular problem of managing, finding and tracking documents.

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 automated computer program takes from a few seconds to a minute to find all the designated filenames. It depends on the speed of your computer and the number of filenames to be collected. When compete, the user has only one screen from which to issue commands via a mouse or keyboard. The screen has four identical columns that will display 40 filenames at one time. Behind each column are files with the same extension ranging from hundreds to thousands of filenames, all available faster than pressing the Up and Down arrow keyboard keys. The filenames can be sorted one of 10 different methods, selectable by the computer user.

Traditionally the user creates files and save them in a folder on their computer wherever they choose. This is what we all have been doing for decades. In fact, the user could put all of the files in one folder-it no longer matters. Let’s face it. When we create folders past a depth of five levels, they become unmanageable and we have problems finding the files. You see, with the program created and patented by ACS locates the filenames, not the files. The files stay where they were put in the first place-they never move.

Our coins and paper money are designed to look uniquely different for a good reason. Once the dresser drawer becomes too hard to open we dump the contents on a table and start sorting the money into piles. Thanks to banks, they provide a computerize machine to sort, count and package our money for us. It saves a lot of time. With a similar analogy, that is why ACS created a program to locate all the filenames in your computer, identify each filename extension and place them into visible piles. There is no regard of the starting place or contents of the file. With a double-click, you can launch any of your 160 visible files and associated programs. This saves us time!

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