I was never big on organizing things in any particular order. It always felt like a chore, whether it was clothes, tools, or digital files. But having no organization means full-on panic when you ...

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Productivity guru Merlin Mann has an interesting post over at 43 Folders regarding file naming conventions best practices. Mann posts a detailed system used by a video crew for naming their files to ...

This is technically a continuation of a conversation I had with eXceLon over the weekend, but I was curious what types of naming conventions everyone uses on their day-to-day files, either at work or ...

Google Drive can become a chaotic mess of files scattered everywhere. If that happens, it becomes nearly impossible to find what you need when deadlines are looming. The solution isn't complicated—it ...

There are a number of good tips to keep in mind when you name your folders, files, and web pages. These tips will help to keep your URLs short and specific to what they involve. Good file naming will ...

Microsoft keeps a limit of 258 characters for the name of a ‘file or sub-folder path.’ If this limit is exceeded, you might not be delete, move, or rename the sub-folder/file. In such a situation, ...

Apparently, the compressed file contained a JPG image file, which my Windows was unable to delete. Using the Skip option, I deleted all but this file. Now, why did this happen? Under standard Windows ...