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 ...

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 ...

Currently there is no across-the-board standard when it comes to naming product image files. This makes it incredibly difficult to determine at a glance what product your images relate to. Coming up ...

File names in Windows that are up to 255 characters in length. Long file names include spaces and special characters except for slashes, colons, asterisks, open/close brackets, exclamation points and ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2018. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. Can you recommend a ...

Every independent collection of data on a disk is a "file," such as a word procesing document, spreadsheet, database, image or video. An executable program, program shortcut and an icon are also files ...

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 ...

If you typically deal with a large volume of documents as part of your company's business, it helps to have an organizational system based on date. Microsoft Windows always adds date meta data that ...

MLStrand56 complained to the Windows forum about Windows’ inability to save file names containing punctuation. [Email your tech questions to [email protected] or post them on the PCW Answer Line forum ...

Anyone know if the FTP protocol spec has a threshold for file name lengths?<BR><BR>I have a few OS X based FTP clients who will be transfersing files with 50+ chars in their file names via FTP to each ...