• londos@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      How about New folder (11)/Final/Final2/TO DELETE/New version/DO NOT DELETE/20250816_Version 4

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
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    6 days ago

    Hmmm yeah. But most of it lives in an automatic cloud backup as well… Photos, important documents, game saves, programming projects. I’ve lost drives before and apart from one or two moments where I couldn’t find a very specific file I didn’t really miss anything. The only things that I really do need to backup at the moment are my music projects and the raw files from my photography

  • sk1nnym1ke@piefed.socialEnglish
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    6 days ago
    • New_document.docx
    • New_document_1.docx
    • New_document_111.docx
    • New_document_12.docx
    • New_document_12aaa.dox
    • New_document_12aaafinal.docx
    • devilish666@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      I wish someone make github but for documents. Image your documents can be forked by someone and has many branches and revisions, it must be hilarious.

      • dustyData@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        You just described SVN. It’s what we used before the invention of git. And is still used today for team projects that use complex file formats, like images, binary blobs, 3d models, that sort of stuff. It will work with any files.

      • EvilCartyen@feddit.dk
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        5 days ago

        You can literally just upload a library of documents to github or another repo service like codeberg. That’s basically what a code project is, a bunch of files.

  • weariedfae@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Ok. Calling me out like that. It’s fine, I deserve it.

    I store everything “temporarily” because “I’ll sort it later” on the Desktop.

    It’s never later.

  • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 days ago

    > says SSD
    > shows a symbol of an HDD

    > MFW most people don’t care because they understand the nuance of communication except for me

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I shit you not, IT around 2004, I had a nurse who stored all her important docs in “Recyle Bin”

    She put in a ticket that her computer was slow. We scheduled a time to look at it and made sure she knew to be there.

    When I showed up, she had left to go to lunch on purpose so she could take a free long lunch. I asked her manager to call her back in, she refused.

    I diagnosed she was out of space, and emptied her bin.

    That did not end up going well.

    She was furious, Her boss was mad. My boss was pissed that it happened but considered it reasonable since she refused to be there.

    I spent the better part of 4 hours undeleting deleted recycle bin contents which is WAYYYYYY harder than undeleting deleted files. They’re already UUID’s and bringing them back into existence will not put them back in the recycle bin, all that meta is gone.

    • sleen@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Project designer: the project function is self explanatory.

      User:

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        5 days ago

        I asked her what the fuck she was thinking later in the process. She knew that files weren’t supposed to be there She just thought it was a good idea, and was very defensive borderline offensive about being able to store files wherever she wanted.

        My first inclination was she was just putting non-work-related stuff in there so that her manager would never see it. But no, there were hundreds of megs of work related stuff. I recommended she not store the 500 megs of personal digital camera fodder on what computer if she was that tight on space. Hard drives of this era were only a handful of gigs large. She just flipped out some more demanded a bigger disc. I had a private consult with her manager and mentioned that We could get a bigger desk but it was going to come out of her budget. She declined.

        A year later we did SOX compliance and as part of that we deleted emails over 3 months and deleted any recycling bin data over a month old. I made sure her manager noted this and that it would delete her preferred file storage and never heard another word out of them.

  • Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Man, I hate my moms pc folder layout, like why do you have Documents folder inside of documents folder inside of Documents folder? Why do you create excel sheets inside Downloads folder when you didn’t download them???

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I make a point to train people on this at work, and I also make a point to periodically delete all relevant files that are not dated or not dated correctly

      oh no you lost some important files? should’ve followed the standards

      we only have so much space and your 1.2 GB undated file that isn’t even in the folder it should be in is getting deleted

      • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 days ago

        one place i was at had ridiculous formatting standards. but like i loved that i could tell everything in a document by reading its title. just, when your pdf scan of your supporting documents for your tax return is 135 pages long, well the title took ten minutes to read

        it was like 2010 tax return supporting documents + w2 - john doe - abc corp + w2 - john doe - def corp + 1099INT - john doe - BankBank +…pdf

        and one of my jobs was to double check that the title accurately represented all 135 documents in that godsforsaken supporting documents scan. That was a rough year.

        Other firm i worked at that year, because i was stupid and moonlit at TWO tax firms one tax season, just called the file SUPPORTING DOCS.pdf . Typed everything in all caps because we thought the IRS was blind. Also allowed us to stream music online and not have to play it on headphones with our doors shut in our offices. They were better.

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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          5 days ago

          hehe yeah

          Your full file extension ends up being: MM.DD-text
          but hopefully noone needs to parse it that way.

          I tend to use YYYY-MM-DD_hh:mm:ss.zzz or YYYY-MM-DD_hh-mm-ss.zzz depending upon the requirement and just recently realised the problem with the . before the zzz.
          Luckily I don’t need to add the zzz quite often.

    • absentbird@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      ISO 8601 is YYYYMMDD (or YYYY-MM-DD in extended format)

      Are you really going to wood chipper someone for leaving off the leading 20? I think we can safely infer the century and millennium with a high confidence, why not trade them for two extra name characters?

        • absentbird@lemmy.world
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          6 days ago

          We’re just talking about the filename, the exact creation time is tracked by the OS. Plus I’d imagine most documents also have a time and date inside. The file name is mostly for sorting and human readability.

          • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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            5 days ago

            Oh, it was just filenames, not everything-everywhere?
            Then I guess it’s fine.

            What’s this date btw?
            10/8/10

      • 5C5C5C@programming.dev
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        6 days ago

        I recently had an accountant file something for the IRS that was dated as expiring in 1940 when it should’ve been 2040. I had to catch it myself after reading through 70 pages of dense forms before it was sent off, and I could’ve easily missed it.

        Digital records have existed long enough now that it’s downright irresponsible to leave off the century for anything where having an accurate date might even slightly matter.

        • absentbird@lemmy.world
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          6 days ago

          The exact date of creation is usually preserved in the filesystem, we’re just talking about what to name the documents themselves. The filename should be short and to the point, it gets truncated if it’s too long, and on windows you only have 260 characters for the entire path to the file plus the name.

          • 5C5C5C@programming.dev
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            6 days ago

            If two characters are hurting your 260 character limit then you have other more serious problems to contend with.

      • PokerChips@programming.dev
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        6 days ago

        I use to do that but got tired of typing out unnecessary characters and appreciate the shorter character length. I think my folders and files will be long gone by Y2Point1K.

        • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 days ago

          are we just talking digital because i’ve inherited archives. my current one only goes back to the 1950s but in the next decades i expect to get some going back centuries.

        • absentbird@lemmy.world
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          6 days ago

          Here you go gramps:

          (shortD) => {
    return parseInt(shortD.slice(0, 2), 10) > 50 ? "19" + shortD : "20"+shortD;
}
          • 5C5C5C@programming.dev
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            6 days ago

            Did the software industry learn nothing from Y2K? Was it too long ago already for people to remember the mess we made for ourselves?

            Saving two characters in a file name is not worth the hell you are leaving in your trail by shoving this nonsense in an obscure corner of production code that people are going to forget about until it’s too late.

            • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              6 days ago

              Their grandchildren will be pissing on their graves over it.

              I often wonder what files may outlive me.

              People have kept old physical remnants. There are obviously famous examples but there are far more mediocre examples.

              All the unique content I’ve created fits on a modestly sized hard drive so keeping it around would be trivial compared to maintaining all those physical remnants.

              • seralth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                6 days ago

                And you assume that changes to filesystems, new filesystems being created or other such things won’t at some point create a edge case that creates a problem?

                When you could just be safe? Sounds stupid as fuck to me to blindly trust nothing will happen to create problems.

                • absentbird@lemmy.world
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                  6 days ago

                  I understand you feel very strongly about four digit years, but I really don’t see any situation that I couldn’t sort out with a simple script.

                  Usually I don’t put dates in file names in the first place, but when I do I use the UTC timestamp; a date without a timezone is inherently fuzzy, and it’s easier to compare and differentiate numerical times.

                  If someone used two digit years in their naming convention I wouldn’t even blink, let alone get the woodchipper, life is too short to get angry over stuff like that.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      6 days ago

      Especially younger people. They’re used to files just… being there on their phone. Photo galleries? Nah, just scroll though every photo you’ve ever taken to find the right one.

      That, and having powerful search functionality + tagging has made perfect folder structures less of a requirement.

      • The Ramen Dutchman@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Photo albums? Nah, just scroll though every photo you’ve ever taken to find the right one.

        Then screenshot it so that the screenshot of the photo is at the top, then switch to the other app and upload the screenshot of the photo there.