RE: System for naming graphics files

[David Hailey <david -dot- hailey -at- usu -dot- edu>]

I have to use different naming protocols depending on what I am doing with the images. For my archive, I put all the images from a shoot into the same sub-directory. The subdirectory will be named using a protocol similar to the one some of you have already described "2008-12-30-austin." I never discard images, but I make a sub-subdirectory where I put the uninteresting ones, so the original subdirectory has maybe a dozen or so images in it. Images are done similarly, "2008-12-30-saltLick.PSD" (I store and edit in PSD format and publish in JPG because JPG is lossy). 

When I do a large interactive courses of more than 100 pages, I include the page number in the page's file name (htc1-0001.html [heat transfer chapter 1 page 0001], and I name the images to match the page. File examples would look like htc1-0001a.jpg, htc1-0001b.jpg, htc1-0001,mpg. This only works if you have long sections where each page leads to the next with a minimum of hyperlinking.

I must confess that when I do a website I basically wing it. I put different sections from a site into different folders named for what they are supposed to do. I also try to name the file after whatever it is supposed to do -- nextButton.jpg, backButton.jpg. Since I would never edit these, and they will always be in the images folder for the appropriate segment of the project, I have no need for search engine protocols. 

For what little it is worth.

Dave


  I save for Web and rename the image to include the number of the page it is on.
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Subject: RE: System for naming graphics files

The following command at the command prompt adds the current date to all
jpg files in the current directory that begin with "pic":

ren pic*.jpg "pic*%date:/=%.jpg"

So:

pic_pretty_sunset.jpg
becomes
pic_pretty_sunset.jpgThu 011509.jpg

pic_ugly_politician.jpg
becomes
pic_ugly_politician.jpgThu 011509.jpg

How could we turn that MMDDYY into YYYYMMDD, as David suggests below?

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> Or use the date convention that automatically sorts just the 
> way you really would want it to: YYMMDD That way, you won't 
> have January 2008 intermingled with January 2009; all the 08s 
> will be together and separate from all the 09s. 
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