Five Best Practices for Organizing and Naming Computer Files

We’ve had decades to get used to organizing computer files, but it’s still hard for many people. Part of the problem is imagining how you—or your colleagues, if you’re in a workgroup—will need to find the files in the future. Another part of the problem is mustering enthusiasm for renaming and reorganizing existing files [...]

By |2022-10-04T11:26:16-04:00October 28th, 2022|Mac Tips|Comments Off on Five Best Practices for Organizing and Naming Computer Files
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The Best Characters to Use When Naming Files and Folders

Back in the early 1980s, DOS filenames couldn’t be more than 8 characters long with a period and a 3-character extension. That was limiting, so when Apple developed the Mac operating system in 1984, it allowed longer names and eliminated the need for an extension, although Mac OS X’s Unix roots meant a return [...]

By |2022-06-03T09:13:05-04:00June 17th, 2022|Mac Tips|Comments Off on The Best Characters to Use When Naming Files and Folders
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