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Search for files on computers was always clumsy and time consuming (it still is for reasons that escape me TBH). No wonder people preferred navigation. Nowadays most people that need a personal archive surely have a note-taking system that link files into a folder/tag structure with much better search capabilities than operating systems ever had (including free-text search).

The results of this research would have been much in favor of search over navigation these days I suspect.