All that sounds good (I love your idea of virtual drive letters, and if it's not copyrighted I will soon addopt it
).
...and one temp location for importing
I once tried that but never succed. The problem is that we often have multiple "temp" locations :
1- The desktop -each time someone came and plug a usb key on my pc I have another "New Folder (XXX)" -when there are too many "New Folder XX" I create a new one and move all of them in it (I know it's pathetic but I'm pretty sure i'm not the only one doing so
)
2- If I'm not too lazy I put it on "My Documents"
3- In my Documents I have a folder for my downloaded files (some are media, others not, so I need to organize that when I have the time)
4- MSN messenger do create a folder for "my received files"
5- When I want to copy files from my linux to my windows drive (yes I dual boot) (or if I unplug my hard disk from my computer to plug it in another one) and I'm too lazy I create a folder like "new stuffs"
6- I'm sure you can put another one(or two) here by yourself...
So If I re-import my library to fix broken links and do not include all of theses directories (and the ones I forget), I will lost theses files, or do I misunderstand the import utility behavior?
And doesn't re-importing the library takes ages? (or at least takes too much time to do it on a frequent base).
The virtual drives letters may help a lot but I still think that in file organisation MC is very powerfull but time consuming (compared for example to wmp or itunes for the music part). Perhaps I should be more rigorous or maybe I just need more time praticing file organisation with MC.
Of course your tips are welcome
As "rumored" here in this forum, the next MC version is likely to....
The more I hear about the next version, the harder it is to wait!