I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.

[azteclady@kind.social]

@alicemcalicepants yes.

oh lord, yes.

[cauzation@mastodon.social]

@alicemcalicepants Why do I feel like I should underscore this?..

[alxndr@tech.lgbt]

@alicemcalicepants Still wary of spaces, TBH.

[independentpen@mas.to]

@alicemcalicepants unless it's underscore. Also no spaces; you camel that text

[ajn142@infosec.exchange]

@ariarhythmic @catselbow @alicemcalicepants @frauxirah @piiabartos yes, all modern versions of Windows can support long paths, but the application interacting with the file still has to support it too, and that support has to be compiled in.

Last I looked, even Excel didn’t support this, but that’s been a few years.

[xenophon@mastodon.online]

@alicemcalicepants I'm still a little nervous using slashes in filenames with Linux.

[superflippy@mastodon.xyz]

@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.

[superflippy@mastodon.xyz]

@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.

[dianebruce@bsd.network]

@grumpyoldtechie @alicemcalicepants fsdb to the rescue. Of course this was way before ZFS etc. Yes it really messes up a Unix fs!

[maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza]

@piiabartos @alicemcalicepants I pretty routinely use hyphens and underscores to avoid using spaces. Does that offend?

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@alicemcalicepants @rk I still don’t do it.

[alicemcalicepants@ohai.social]

@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@ohai.social]

@maccruiskeen @piiabartos I work on webpages, so of course not

[bit@ohai.social]

@alicemcalicepants I'm "capitalization in filenames doesn't matter" years old.

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@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.

[jeremymallin@autistics.life]

@alicemcalicepants
I'm "more than eight characters in a filename feels wrong" years old.

[a_cubed@mastodon.social]

@alicemcalicepants
Space in filenames are evil, too.

[piiabartos@mastodontti.fi]

@maccruiskeen @alicemcalicepants That is fine.

[tarix29@tech.lgbt]

@alicemcalicepants I'm only in my 20s but I will die on the hill that slashes and spaces in filenames are unacceptable

[drewtowler@mas.to]

@alicemcalicepants
All lower case, dashes if essential, that's it.