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File Naming:

File Name will have several elements, elements are ordered by importance

from an identification and the ease of retrieval PoV to specific, detail of importance as much as possible, and then we can stop at any element

Dos Don’ts Why: Use the hyphen (-) to delimit words within an element or capitalize the first letter of each word within an element (Ideally we use Camel case for natural persons naming and hyphen for otherwise separation of words)

Dos Don’ts Why:

Use the underscore (_) as element delimiter Dos Don’ts Why:

Use Camel case for natural Person Full name Dos Don’ts Why:

NO SPACE: Do not use spaces Dos Don’ts Why:

NO special characters::such as: ! # $ % & ' @ ^ ` ~ + , . ; = ) ( Dos Don’ts Why:

NO accent Latin, NO Arabic Nothing but Latin alphabet (a-zA-Z), numbers(1-9) and dashes (-) or underscores (_)

for FileName, the Period/Dot (.) accepted on FolderName for hierarchy, in short don’t use (e.g ç, õ, ابجدو) but only latin characters numbers dash, underscore, and period (dot) with some limitations

Dos Don’ts Why: NO Period character (.) at the beginning or end

of any filename or folder, don’t consecutively in the middle of a file name. For example, “file..name.pdf” is invalid,

Dos Don’ts Why:

Date are ISO YYMMDD using a date in the file name always stat the date back to front and in this format: YY or YYMM or YYMMDD (ISO), Dates should be ordered: YEAR, MONTH, DAY. and the same used for Versioning

Dos Don’ts Why:

Use double zeros (00) for empty or template, model

Dos Don’ts Why:


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