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I was wondering why all of those papers have PDF downloads with the most useless, non-descriptive, names. > Paper_high_res.pdf
by livrem 3y ago
I was wondering why all of those papers have PDF downloads with the most useless, non-descriptive, names.
> Paper_high_res.pdf
- menacingly 3y agoProbably the same kind of oversight that just allowed me to compile hundreds of books in a catalog each as "book.pdf" It was on exactly the second download where I realized how restrictive my choice of namespace was
- corysama 3y agoThe authors aren't thinking about you when they name the 87th revision of their paper.pdf They just want to get some sleep.
- alok-g 3y agoI used to give descriptive names to directories that would each carry a main document, and associated materials like references, diagrams, etc. Since the directory already had a descriptive name, I used to name the main document like "-- paper.docx" so that it stays on top when sorting the files by name. However, realizing the problem you have mentioned, I started giving descriptive names to the main document also, in most cases by re-using the name given to the directory, still adding the leading "--".