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i'm an old directory guy myself, but as i collect more and more and more data, tagging and searching just becomes easier. mlocate, grep, spotlight all are handy tools.. but since we still have to put our files somewhere i do try and organize them loosely by folders by date.. my photos are all in yearly sub directories (2010, 2009, 2008) in a photos folder. at least then i can burn backup dvd's loosely organized. folder structures, for me, are great until you have 60,000+ photos you're trying to organize. i just can't worry about navigating a directory structure. throwing them all into aperture and organizing by tags, date stamps and geolocation is far faster, accurate and automated.
the only problem is migrating the collection to a new/different platform. easy to copy a directory structure over. hard to export metatags in a specific application. we need to see some standardization of metadata, or centrally locating it (in the proposed database file systems, or an outright database like oracle, mysql, sqlite).
file systems are here to stay for a while yet..
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