What naming convention do you use?

10 years ago from Josh Green, Pixel Pusher

James Stiff, 10 years ago
I usually go for something like:
projectnamehomeDDMMYYWIP.psd (work in progress) projectnamehomeDDMMYYAW.psd (final artwork)
It might seem overkill putting the date in there but I find it easier than referring to creation dates in the file meta data.
If I end up creating multiple iterations on single day, I just add 01, 02 etc to the end of the file name.
When folders start getting messy, I just dump all the old WIP files in a sub-folder called "WIP".
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- Petri Partio, 10 years ago
  I would recommend using YYYYMMDD. In your example things get messy when sorted by filename:
  projectnamehome010813WIP.psd projectnamehome300713WIP.psd projectnamehome310713_WIP.psd
  - VS-
  projectnamehome20130730WIP.psd projectnamehome20130731WIP.psd projectnamehome20130801_WIP.psd
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  - Todd Smith-Salter, 10 years ago
    Great point Petri. I do this anytime I want to include a date in a a file name, especially if the date is at the beginning.
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  - James Stiff, 10 years ago
    Good call. Many thanks for the tip :)
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