File names in Windows that are up to 255 characters in length. Long file names include spaces and special characters except for slashes, colons, asterisks, open/close brackets, exclamation points and ...

Productivity guru Merlin Mann has an interesting post over at 43 Folders regarding file naming conventions best practices. Mann posts a detailed system used by a video crew for naming their files to ...

Every independent collection of data on a disk is a "file," such as a word procesing document, spreadsheet, database, image or video. An executable program, program shortcut and an icon are also files ...

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I was never big on organizing things in any particular order. It always felt like a chore, whether it was clothes, tools, or digital files. But having no organization means full-on panic when you ...

Apparently, the compressed file contained a JPG image file, which my Windows was unable to delete. Using the Skip option, I deleted all but this file. Now, why did this happen? Under standard Windows ...

A file extension, or file name extension, is the letters immediately shown after the last period in a file name. For example, the file extension.txt has an extension of .txt. This extension allows the ...

MLStrand56 complained to the Windows forum about Windows’ inability to save file names containing punctuation. [Email your tech questions to [email protected] or post them on the PCW Answer Line forum ...

How to organize and name folders and files in Google Drive Your email has been sent When your organization transitions to Google Drive for storage, you have the opportunity to make changes to legacy ...