<![CDATA[I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.]]>I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/d42268c0-fa62-4ab2-a4e1-5d5d7e6d2f27/i-m-using-punctuation-in-a-filename-feels-wrong-years-old.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 02:30:58 GMTFri, 01 May 2026 10:00:25 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 15:19:54 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants Sometimes when I watch backup job reports I can't but sigh when I see people not understanding the concept of file names and creating typing something like "this could be for Martin.... or John..... .docx".

Don't get me started on how to this day it's such a hassle when non-ASCII letters are in file names and then there's supposed to be some inter-operating system sharing of it. You never know what actually happens.

Sometimes it's even inside the same OS, like a case where there was a file called something like "bearing flange ⌀ 25mm.something" and the program that had created it could not open it when you double clicked it from Windows's file manager, but they could open it by going FIle -> Open in the program.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://some.apz.fi/ap/users/116031884338016573/statuses/116499991425756703https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://some.apz.fi/ap/users/116031884338016573/statuses/116499991425756703Fri, 01 May 2026 15:19:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 15:14:53 GMT]]>@bit @alicemcalicepants tbf I'm pretty sure most Windows installs still treat filename.txt and FILENAME.txt as the same file.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/ap/users/115601049471092408/statuses/116499971698098608https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/ap/users/115601049471092408/statuses/116499971698098608Fri, 01 May 2026 15:14:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 15:14:36 GMT]]>@pauamma I definitely remember the eight-character limit, but I gladly accepted the change to being allowed longer names 😁

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/alicemcalicepants/statuses/116499970588044778https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/alicemcalicepants/statuses/116499970588044778Fri, 01 May 2026 15:14:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 15:12:56 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants "filenames have 2 components 8 characters or shorter each" years old here. (Extra credit question: is that older or younger?)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/pauamma/statuses/116499963997602689https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/pauamma/statuses/116499963997602689Fri, 01 May 2026 15:12:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 15:10:32 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants Wait, you can do that?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/ap/users/115601049471092408/statuses/116499954569976472https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.eu/ap/users/115601049471092408/statuses/116499954569976472Fri, 01 May 2026 15:10:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 15:04:04 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants Do the kids out there even get what this is all about?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://deacon.social/users/Bodling/statuses/116499929142413872https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://deacon.social/users/Bodling/statuses/116499929142413872Fri, 01 May 2026 15:04:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 15:02:49 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants

Anyone "just tell me which track I'm allocated" old?

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/davefischer/statuses/116499924234448132https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/davefischer/statuses/116499924234448132Fri, 01 May 2026 15:02:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 15:00:45 GMT]]>@glueckstein @alicemcalicepants
I remember 6.3 (DEC RADIX 50)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/PeterLudemann/statuses/116499916064937258https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/PeterLudemann/statuses/116499916064937258Fri, 01 May 2026 15:00:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 14:47:37 GMT]]>@frauxirah @catselbow @alicemcalicepants @piiabartos

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sjcooke66/statuses/116499864427056821https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sjcooke66/statuses/116499864427056821Fri, 01 May 2026 14:47:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 14:45:26 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants I’m “I knew I was dreaming, because the filenames had more than 8 characters” years old

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/jimfl/statuses/116499855900434349https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/jimfl/statuses/116499855900434349Fri, 01 May 2026 14:45:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 14:42:01 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants that’s because it’s wrong

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/Dave3307/statuses/116499842439910961https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/Dave3307/statuses/116499842439910961Fri, 01 May 2026 14:42:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 14:39:49 GMT]]>@catselbow @alicemcalicepants @frauxirah @piiabartos set `LongPathsEnabled` and you can get up to 32k in length. If your app and all frameworks it depends on support it, of course.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/binford2k/statuses/116499833791314865https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/binford2k/statuses/116499833791314865Fri, 01 May 2026 14:39:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 14:30:29 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants Who remembers the prompt and only being able to run one letter at a time. Thought we were Up Town when we loaded a menu program that ran on start-up.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/chertridge/statuses/116499797108368810https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/chertridge/statuses/116499797108368810Fri, 01 May 2026 14:30:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 14:23:33 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants
All lower case, dashes if essential, that's it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/drewtowler/statuses/116499769839789730https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/drewtowler/statuses/116499769839789730Fri, 01 May 2026 14:23:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 14:22:39 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants I'm only in my 20s but I will die on the hill that slashes and spaces in filenames are unacceptable

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/tarix29/statuses/116499766249116507https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/tarix29/statuses/116499766249116507Fri, 01 May 2026 14:22:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 14:12:57 GMT]]>@maccruiskeen @alicemcalicepants That is fine.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodontti.fi/users/piiabartos/statuses/116499728151604280https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodontti.fi/users/piiabartos/statuses/116499728151604280Fri, 01 May 2026 14:12:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 14:12:43 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants
Space in filenames are evil, too.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/a_cubed/statuses/116499727198003314https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/a_cubed/statuses/116499727198003314Fri, 01 May 2026 14:12:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 14:08:06 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants
I'm "more than eight characters in a filename feels wrong" years old.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autistics.life/users/JeremyMallin/statuses/116499709064065829https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autistics.life/users/JeremyMallin/statuses/116499709064065829Fri, 01 May 2026 14:08:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 14:07:06 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants @rk And I’ve been using macs since 85, where it’s always been ‘ok’, but I’ve also always had to deal with DOS/Windows stuff so I always backed away.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116499705150185779https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116499705150185779Fri, 01 May 2026 14:07:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 14:05:44 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants I'm "capitalization in filenames doesn't matter" years old.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/bit/statuses/116499699767328129https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/bit/statuses/116499699767328129Fri, 01 May 2026 14:05:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 13:57:26 GMT]]>@maccruiskeen @piiabartos I work on webpages, so of course not 😁

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/alicemcalicepants/statuses/116499667155878773https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/alicemcalicepants/statuses/116499667155878773Fri, 01 May 2026 13:57:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 13:56:34 GMT]]>@octothorpe @rk me neither! The thought was sparked this morning when I created a folder for the new Death Lens album 'What's Left Now' but couldn't bring myself to put the apostrophe in 😁

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/alicemcalicepants/statuses/116499663743324078https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/alicemcalicepants/statuses/116499663743324078Fri, 01 May 2026 13:56:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 13:54:11 GMT]]>@alicemcalicepants @rk I still don’t do it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116499654349650474https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/octothorpe/statuses/116499654349650474Fri, 01 May 2026 13:54:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old. on Fri, 01 May 2026 13:49:09 GMT]]>@piiabartos @alicemcalicepants I pretty routinely use hyphens and underscores to avoid using spaces. Does that offend?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/maccruiskeen/statuses/116499634524155587https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/maccruiskeen/statuses/116499634524155587Fri, 01 May 2026 13:49:09 GMT