crazy idea: show folder hierarchy from a single annotation that represents a slash delimited path

[toloudis]

Crazy idea and not sure if worth anything, but I wanted to write it down here.

What if there were a special annotation, or type of annotation, that was considered "pathlike". The canonical example here is the annotation that records the original user-space path from the Vast.
If only that annotation is added to the Group By, then the main view could automatically create folders based on the slashes in the path annotation string! In this way one could re-create the old folders from the Vast, for files properly annotated.

This is a bit of an anti-pattern in that it might discourage proper annotation, but could also be an interesting use case when the path is added at the end of a list of other group-by annotations. for example, if you grouped by cell-line and then by vast-path, then you could see what are the vast folders of all the images of a given cell line.

This idea occurred to me in the context of dealing with old files on the Vast that are not yet added to FMS, and would be difficult to assign thorough and correct annotations.