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Is there any point in underscoring file and project names?
I often see people name their files by underscoring between words. I have heard conflicting things about the need/use of this. I dont do it, but perhaps I should. Thoughts?
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It used to be, and I don’t know if it still holds true, but Computers did not like – dashes, . periods, / slashes in file names.
Using the_underscore was the wise way to do things. It’s a habit I developed in the mid 90’s and still use them_today.
This would be a good question for the OS boards
Chris Tompkins
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I think underscoring is useful to put a timecode number into a file name as : or; is illegal. It also makes the numbers look like timecode so less confusing than spaces.
These days most OSs can handle a lot of characters that were once illegal, but a space instead of an underscore is OK for all platforms.
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