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Anon comes up with filenames (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

So, I have seen people do this, and I gotta ask... what is the plan?

Like you are saving the file, implying that you plan on using it again... why make it so hard to figure out which one it was? Especially in this case, where he has done it to enough files all in the same place that he eventually hit the same combo again.... like, are there hundreds or thousands of randomly named files in that same folder? Why save them if they will be impossible to find again anyway?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    My guess is since they are images the thumbnail is more important as an identifier than the name would be.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Then why change it? Most apps give a default name, so you literally just need to click "save" or press "Enter."

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    No idea, best I got is that maybe the default name is always the same from whatever source they are using, so they would get 'replace it?' dialog anyway.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't do specifically what OP did, but often I remember things by when better than by name.

    Sorting a folder by last modified/created in descending order generally gets me what I'm looking for pretty quickly

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I tend to save things with the name embedded, so "--_" and use the date that's relevant for the file, not necessarily when it was created (e.g. due date for homework, tax return due date, etc). If I don't care (e.g. a downloaded image), I just accept whatever the default is.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    because: lazy

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "doc1", "doc2", "doc3frogstudy", "doc4"

    hmm, the doc is redundant. the number is also redundant, it has date to sort by. 1, 2, and 4 can be whatever.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can see an argument for how it can still be possible to work with that... filing system, but I still don't get what the upside is, just that it doesn't have as many downsides as it seems like it should.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I personally have too many random trash notes and files to name them. Maybe it takes 30 seconds, whatever, I'm closing the thing right now. It's not important anyways, but I'm not gonna purge it all to make anyone else happy with how clean and dead my harddrive is.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    some websites will save the file name when you upload a file. it could be done for privacy reasons if you don’t want a website to know how you got a file. this is the best reason i can think of for randomizing file names, but i don’t actually do this in practice. sometimes i’ll just rename the file before uploading if im worried about it. file names are just too useful.

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