I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
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@alicemcalicepants The first time I used a Windows computer was when I had a temp job in a carpet company’s corporate office. Before then, I’d only ever used Apples and DOS. I was new to the 8.3 file name structure. I used those 3 letters to show the name of the person I created the document for & thought I was so clever.
@alicemcalicepants When Windows asked me what program should open .ABC files, I told it the program I used to create the document. I feel sorry for whoever had to use that computer after I left.
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@DianeBruce @alicemcalicepants More than 26 years ago? BTW if you really want to mess with people on Unix like systems put newlines in the filenames.
@grumpyoldtechie @alicemcalicepants fsdb to the rescue. Of course this was way before ZFS etc. Yes it really messes up a Unix fs!
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@alicemcalicepants And spaces.
@piiabartos @alicemcalicepants I pretty routinely use hyphens and underscores to avoid using spaces. Does that offend?
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants @rk I still don’t do it.
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@alicemcalicepants @rk I still don’t do it.
@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
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@piiabartos @alicemcalicepants I pretty routinely use hyphens and underscores to avoid using spaces. Does that offend?
@maccruiskeen @piiabartos I work on webpages, so of course not
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants I'm "capitalization in filenames doesn't matter" years old.
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@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
@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.
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants
I'm "more than eight characters in a filename feels wrong" years old. -
I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants
Space in filenames are evil, too. -
@piiabartos @alicemcalicepants I pretty routinely use hyphens and underscores to avoid using spaces. Does that offend?
@maccruiskeen @alicemcalicepants That is fine.
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants I'm only in my 20s but I will die on the hill that slashes and spaces in filenames are unacceptable
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants Who remembers the #DOS 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.
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@alicemcalicepants @frauxirah @piiabartos
Windows still has a limit of 256 characters for a file's path (directory+name). You can create files that exceed that, but then they're inaccessible until you shorten the path.
I regularly see this in our accounting office, where they make folders with names like "Professor Joe Schmoe, August 2020 - grant numer 123456789 - provisional DO NOT USE THIS ONE version 7", nested several layers deep.
@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.
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants that’s because it’s wrong
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants I’m “I knew I was dreaming, because the filenames had more than 8 characters” years old
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@catselbow @alicemcalicepants @piiabartos I come fresh from a horrible migration project with that exact issue. And then people complain the files wouldn't sychronise anymore.
#SendHelp 
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@alicemcalicepants I am "the 8.3 filename structure" old.
@glueckstein @alicemcalicepants
I remember 6.3 (DEC RADIX 50) -
I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
