Is there a software out there that will Batch change file names to a common convention. Part of looking into my efficiency came across the reality that my office uses multiple styles of file names.
My example..
Cad file names are YY-JOB# first job of 2012 is 12001.dwg
but the FEMA form is saved as 12-001.doc
and the FEMA Pictures folder is saved as 2012001
and maybe the legal description word document is saved as 12-001 Legal.doc
Some of this was inherited from the previous owner. Personally, I like the "2012001" format since then the job files from the 1990's are sorted properly. If not, the 90's jobs show up at the end of the lists.
2012-01-01
Anytime you want you can convert your 90 files to 1990 and not change the sorting.
If you use that as your file denominator.
I do not. But I use -2012-01-01 appended to my file. I may have staged dwgs and almost always multiple coordinate .asc and .raw files.
Began using the yyyy-mm-dd in sort fields back in 1982 and see no reason to change it now.
Paul in PA
2012-01-01
If I were emperor, yyyy-mm-dd is the only date order that would be used for anything. Numerical months then wouldn't be confusing.
Can anybody tell me when 12-10-11 is?
2012-01-01
> Can anybody tell me when 12-10-11 is?
In spring 1910, Nellie Quander became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha at Howard. Two years later, she served the chapter's president. After graduation, Quander was the graduate advisor to Alpha chapter. At the time, Alpha Kappa Alpha existed as one chapter at Howard University with only a ritual and sponsored social events. No plan of nationalizing or incorprorating the organization existed.
To expand the sorority at Howard, new members were initiated. On October 11, 1912, twenty-two members were initiated into Alpha Kappa Alpha. The twenty-two began to be dismayed at the progress of the sorority and wanted to reorganize. According to Giddings, the group wanted to "establish a national organization, enlarge the scope of activities of the sorority, change its name and symbols, and be more politically oriented."
