I agree with you and we *do* have more structured naming on in-house
files. The problem is with the incoming files from customers.
(Believe me, if I had control over what our customers did - I would be
a much happier person.)
Thanks,
Justin
On Tuesday, February 28, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Marlyse Comte wrote:
>> ("file2.pdf" being the real version 2 art. "file 2.pdf" being the
>> version 1 art that PowerMail renamed and added a "2")
>>
>> So far, we haven't had an order go out wrong, but there has been some
>> confusion because of this renaming of files.
>
> Having to deal also with many revisions of files, I would never, never,
> never rely on either the finder or powermail or any application to name
> the later, duplicate files correctly with only a number to be later
> understood by all and everyone. But I would make sure that there is
> something descriptive in the file name like REV and a number.
>
> So it would be "fileREV1.pdf" or just plain "fileR1.pdf" so I could
> even
> write "file R1.pdf" and if the finder or any other application wants to
> add a 1 because there is already such a file it would become "fileR1
> 1.pdf" and worst senario would be "fileR11.pdf which is quite horrid if
> you do indeed have 11 versions but it then should automatically skip 11
> and go to 111.
>
> But to even avoid such an option I would stick with something like
> "file1R.pdf" and "file2R.pdf" so all added numbers would be clearly
> distinguishable between Revision/Version number and duplicates in the
> same location, e.g. "file2R3.pdf" or "file2R 3.pdf".
>
> Hope this all makes at least somewhat sense.
>
>
>
> ---marlyse
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