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The File Naming System That Saved My Business (And the One That Nearly Ended It)
Business & Workflow

The File Naming System That Saved My Business (And the One That Nearly Ended It)

My twins are seven years old, and they are curious, and they are absolutely fearless around a trackpad. A couple of years ago, my daughter opened my laptop while I was making coffee and started clicking around in Lightroom. By the time I walked back into the room, she had selected and deleted an entire folder of client proofs, around 340 images from a commercial product shoot. I set down my mug, walked to my external drive, navigated to that morning’s automated backup, and had everything restored in about 90 seconds.

The File Naming System That Saved My Business (And Why Yours Is Probably a Mess)
Business & Workflow

The File Naming System That Saved My Business (And Why Yours Is Probably a Mess)

My twins are seven years old. They are curious, fast, and completely indifferent to the concept of a client deadline. A few years ago, one of them got hold of my keyboard while I was refilling my coffee and deleted an entire folder of proofs I had already delivered for client review. Gone. I had them restored from a versioned backup in 90 seconds. My kid thought it was magic. I knew it was just a system that worked.