Comments on: File Naming tips http://kaushikgopal.com/blog/142/best-file-naming-tips-practices Kaushik Gopal's Online Journal Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:25:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: dankur http://kaushikgopal.com/blog/142/best-file-naming-tips-practices/comment-page-1#comment-80 dankur Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:21:09 +0000 http://kaushikgopal.com/blog/?p=142#comment-80 <p>one more useful tip which i use often.. sometimes, i add a short prefix to the filenames to categorize them within a folder.. or to indicate a sequence.. e.g. o1_[Manuals]__HowToOwnKG.doc o1_[Manuals]__HowToAvoidKuwaitiTams.doc o2_[Projects]__20090312_HowWeOwnedKGToday.xls o2_[Projects]__20090412_ReadingBlankGoogleHomePages.pdf</p> <p>Using this, i dont have to create too many folders/sub-folders and i can see all the relevant files in the same folder... also, i can sort them... moreover, if i use cygwin or unix, then i can use this convention to delimit the filenames and extract info from the descriptive filename..</p> one more useful tip which i use often.. sometimes, i add a short prefix to the filenames to categorize them within a folder.. or to indicate a sequence.. e.g. o1_[Manuals]__HowToOwnKG.doc o1_[Manuals]__HowToAvoidKuwaitiTams.doc o2_[Projects]__20090312_HowWeOwnedKGToday.xls o2_[Projects]__20090412_ReadingBlankGoogleHomePages.pdf

Using this, i dont have to create too many folders/sub-folders and i can see all the relevant files in the same folder… also, i can sort them… moreover, if i use cygwin or unix, then i can use this convention to delimit the filenames and extract info from the descriptive filename..

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