File and Directory Naming Conventions
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Some light discussion.
What's your preferred convention for file and directory names that need multiple words? I'm breaking my habit of spaces, and I'm curious to know what conventions you folks follow.
My $0.02: My eyes tend to follow camel case pretty well. If words are separated by character, I waffle back and forth between - and _. Even though _ requires an extra keystroke, it doesn't seem that costly.
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I don't think that I have any
I'd use an underbar, though. That makes the most sense to me.
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File and Folder naming really depends on what works for your business. I like using all lowercase with underscores, but others don't.
It all really matters on what works for the business.
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I use a combination of underscore, hyphens, uppercase and lowercase. And ever since I started juggling between Mac, Windows and Linux, I've been avoiding spaces.
Not sure if you noticed but most Linux and Windows iso downloads use a combination of hyphens, underscore, uppercase and lowercase.
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I'm an underscore guy all the way. And I tend to use all caps when creating folders. Easier for everyone to read.
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I'm kind of all across the board, lol.
(underscores) Sometimes I'll use them (when I know it'll make things easier in the long run), but other times I won't (because it won't matter for certain circumstances).
(capitals vs lowercase) Sometimes I'll name a folder with all caps, other times I won't. And I'll actually use a combination sometimes (because I like the way certain folders will catch my eye by having the first part of the folder named with all caps, and the second part with a combination (ex: "SERVERS_-_Logs_and_Events"))
(numbers and symbols) I have a separate hard drive that is dedicated to data, and I have a numbering system for the folders. Here's an example:
!IN
!OUT
#TEMP
000 _____________________________________________
001 - SHUEY
002 - TEAM
003 - PROJECTS
004 _____________________________________________
005 - Apps
006 - Scripts
007 - Software & Driver Repository
008 _____________________________________________
(etc...)to put distance between top-level folders and folders without any special prefixes. -
I just use spaces. It works better with searches.
I used to not use spaces, but it really doesn't matter anymore.
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@Tim_G said in File and Directory Naming Conventions:
I just use spaces. It works better with searches.
I used to not use spaces, but it really doesn't matter anymore.
When downloading files from sharepoint, it replaces spaces with "%20" that's another reason I avoid spaces.
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I use pretty much all lowercase and hyphens or underscores. I'm too lazy to escape spaces and a lot of times too lazy to hold shift to get the underscore.
