Name family without stages#

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Files whose names share every word, leaving out words for the step of the work such as raw and processed, are grouped as one family of names, unless one of them is a computer’s own file or a stand-in.

name_family_without_stages version 1+d1

  • Kind of rule: Which files go together (groups). Says which things count as the same in some respect, and so forms groups.

  • What it concludes: equivalent, in respect of name_family

  • Reasoning: defeasible. A conclusion is usually right, and is retracted when a rule it names concludes against it.

  • What it reads: files, which it sorts into groups

Is it available in this version?#

Yes. The engine runs it.

What would defeat it#

What this rule concludes about something is withdrawn when any of these rules concludes about the same thing:

  • filesystem_noise_from_spelling: Files a computer makes on its own, such as .DS_Store or Thumbs.db, are recognized by how their names are spelled and set aside; an office program’s lock file, whose name starts ~$, is left alone, because it means somebody was at work.

  • placeholder_from_entry_kind: A shortcut, or a file that claims a size but takes up no room on the disk, is taken to stand in for contents kept somewhere else.

  • installed_software_in_folder: A folder is recognized as an installed program, such as a copy of Fiji or a Python environment, from the parts it holds, a name ending .app, its program-style subfolders or a majority of program files; its files are still indexed and read, and rules about experiments leave them alone.

It stands aside beneath every folder one of these rules raises:

Parameters#

Parameter

Shipped value

May be

What it does

component_kinds

["word"]

list of text

Which components form the family.

ignored_theme_kinds

["stage"]

list of text

A word matched to a sense of these kinds is left out. Stage words and no others: whether the family should also forget which replicate a file is, as the identity does, is a decision of its own and the design asks for it only of the identity.

minimum_components

2

whole number, from 1 to 20

How many words must agree.