Re: file name

[edward@seaysystems.com]

Received from Chris Albertson:
> 
> 
> In my opinion the filename does not matter at all.  Only as long as
> each image is garanted by convention to have a unique name.  And no,
> you can't depend on keeping the files in serporate directories either. 
> They need to be unique, project wide.  We keep the file names in a
> database and each must be unique.  Random hexidecimal numbers are OK by
> me if they can be made unique TASS wide.

I think the suggestion of subdirectories wasn't intended to segregate the
files, but to increase the name space on the CDROM.  The intent is to 
make the file names a) unique and b) meaningful, but the 8.3 names are
not long enough for all the data desired in the name.  However, most of
the data in the name would be fairly static or only slowly changing.
The site, the camera, the date, etc.  Using this information as the
subdirectory name changes the 8.3 into 16.3 with just one level.  This
keeps the total file name meaningful,and the two pieces can automatically
be pasted back together by a script when the files are copied off of the
CDROM.

I think random names would make the files too hard to manage on disk.  You
couldn't group files with wild cards to pick out just the I data, for
instance.

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