Computer Design Tip

[Guest]

Here's a tip that I wish I'd thought of before now.
When designing your trailer, number your design somehow, so that when you come up with a change or something better... you assign a new number to your design.
I've been trying to find my "latest-new-final" design for about an hour now and I can't seem to locate it. I probably have over 250 different files that have similar words like Latest, Final, New Final and Latest New Final in the name.
If I would have just stuck to numbers, it would have been a piece of cake to locate my "Latest" file drawing.

[AmyH]

Putting a date on the end of the file name works really well too, ie. TearDesign_1_12_05.jpg (or whatever the extension is). Hope you found that file Dean.

Amy

[Guest]

Thanks Amy,
Dates would deffinately work.
(I think I found it)

[Larry Messaros]

You could also do a number/letter combination if you have different designs.

Like BajaBenroy1a, 1b 1c. A major revision (upgrade?) would then be 2a. 2b, ...........

In the case of Mike, Steve, Andrew it would be Weekender1456728976a....

[Guest]

Thanks Larry
I finally did find it.
What happened was, I backtracked a bit from my "latest" design and did an off chute of an earlier "latest" design. (If that makes sense)

[Laredo]

does your program not have a sort-by-create-date feature?

[Larry Messaros]

does your program not have a sort-by-create-date feature?

Yup!

But it doesn't take into account either the many projects that I am working on at once or the tangents that I get on when I am working on a project. I sometimes have to resort to file size to find what I was working on, but that doesn't always work.

I'm not the most organized person around, (but at least when I do something on the computer, I can read it!!:) ) and I find that I start getting all these files on every corner of my hard drive and organization goes right out the door

[Laredo]

I am not sure what systems you work with.
I do a lot of writing and editing, though, and sometimes changes in a story are so minor that it doesn't affect file size (things like spelling corrections, e.g.).
So I have learnt to adore the timestamp feature in my word processor.
Of course, it counts in increments of a minute.

So for instance if I have a 15K file that was created today, it would be sorted by 1/14/2005 2:29:03 p.m., then edited, the revision would be at 1/14/2005 2:29:41 p.m.

In looking for the one to attach to an email or submit in a batch job, it's that :41 p.m. file I want. I guess it's all in what you're used to, though.

Have a good one ...