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Ask HN: Best File Naming Convention?
I have recently taken upon the task of organizing my digital life (multiple laptops, Dropbox, external drives) to minimize some digital waste as well as making my digital storage a little more manageable.
How do you name your files/directories to effectively manage them?
https://www2.staffingindustry.com/site/Editorial/Archived-Blog-Posts/Adam-Pode-s-Blog/Probably-the-best-file-naming-convention-ever?
I found this page during some quick googling, but I would like to see what HN has to say about it.
- davchana 8y agoFirst some 6-8 badic folders, like Travel, Documents, Finance, Work etc. Travel could have YYYYMMDD TRIP folders, Work could have YYYY MM Company A
- vkaku 8y ago- I use 8.3 NAMES for my top level stuff. I keep the top level names short. - The subsequent folders are CamelCased. - The files are either NAME.TXT (8.3 file) or NameLongerThanExpected-Part1.txt (regular file)
- bjourne 8y agoShort lowercase names and I avoid spaces and non-ascii chars. Even in 2019 there is still software that has trouble with that, especially if the files are accessed from both Windows and Linux.