• nero@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How does that last point work? The ”Putting the date in the files ensures it wouldn’t disappear due to OS shenanigans.”?

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      1 year ago

      You create a file on 30.09.2010, back it up and lose it due to hardware failure on 12.07.2022. When you restore the file from your backup to your device it will most likely be stamped as created 12.07.2022 even though originally it was created before that. If you name your file manual_2010-09-30.pdf you always know the date it was created and sort it by that filename.

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      1 year ago

      Example:

      Lab_Report_20020101

      That’s what I always do with files. Windows like to reset your date attributes for some reason. If you copy a file, or upload it to cloud and redownload, there are some cloud services that doesn’t save the file date for some reason. Filename always gets saved.