Comments in Drive Mode

[TheQwerty]

What's the reasoning for not allowing commenting when the List is in Drive mode?
Tagging works here, but not comments.

We can use the Comment SC to comment on drives, but as far as I can tell there is no way to retrieve/view those comments.

[admin]

I never thought anybody would comment or tag drives... actually I'm surprised that tagging works there.

[TheQwerty]

Well I think commenting them could be useful particularly for network drives.

I suppose your thinking may have been that there's no guarantee that the drive letter always corresponds with the drive and thus no fool-proof method of associating data with them. (Though to be fair when we comment/tag a file we have the same issues.)

[admin]

When I do Tags 2.0 there will be some fundamental re-write of list columns handling... this will be the time
when I might add tags/comments for drives...

[PeterH]

Well I think commenting them could be useful particularly for network drives.

I suppose your thinking may have been that there's no guarantee that the drive letter always corresponds with the drive and thus no fool-proof method of associating data with them. (Though to be fair when we comment/tag a file we have the same issues.)

Thinking about "non-fixed" drives, i.e. network-drives, USB-drives, eSATA-drives, (more?), not neccessary always having the same drive-letter, and maybe a drive-letter changing the mounted drive: would it be possible to associate the tags with the ID of the drive (instead of the drive-letter)?

If I understood it right it's planned for XY to allow access to some storage without a drive letter? Then the same could apply here...

(Did I say that's easy? No )