CUT/DAILY 437: File Naming and why it is so important

CUT/DAILY #437 : Be Conventional. Is all about the importance of file naming correctly, and I 100% agree.

Every project needs a simple and effective naming convention for tracking everything, and it should be followed exactly on every job.

Every company I work for doesn’t follow any naming conventions and it is literally insane. Literally I am not even given consistent job numbers or names, ever.

And the naming should be matched with file structure on the hard drives.

Without organization going back will always be hard, but with it finding stuff is easy.

AppleInsider on how to batch rename files in the Apple Finder

You learn something new every day, I didn’t actually realize that this was now built into the Mac OS, as I have always used A Better Finder Rename (and awesome app with more power than this, but it costs $22.95 unlike this tip but if you do check it out also check out A Better Finder Attribute it’s companion app).

So check out this article by Macolm Owen at AppleInsider.

Every editor will need to batch rename files at some point, and the fact that it is so easy to do in the finder now is an amazing thing.