How Not To Design A Filing System
When you screenshot something in WoW the shot gets saved in your Screenshot Folder, and it gets an auto-generated name.
The name will have the prefix WoWScrnShot followed by the date it was taken and a six-digit number, possibly denoting the exact time of the shooting.
In your Screenshot Folder, all your screenshots will be handily placed in order, so you can easily find them when you want to go back and reminisce about the good old days, right?
Wrong.
Well, right in so far that they are placed in order, but wrong wrong wrong in that you can easily find them, because you can’t!
You see, the date stamp of the screenshot is not the convenient year-month-day-variety every sane person uses, but some ancient month-day-year variety. This means that your last shots will not be last in the file list but squished in somewhere at the residing place of the current month. You browse shots from January 2009 when you suddenly find yourself looking at Festergut kill shots from a week ago, and then you are back in February 2009. Aargh!
My folder currently have 460 shots from the last year and it is a pain to look through to find a particular one because of this inane filing system. How hard can it be to make sure images are saved in a logical, chronological order? Wake up and smell the 10’s please!
Oh, and you think 460 shots are a lot? It would have been at least 2000 more but last time my laptop kicked the bucket the workshop decided that formatting the hard drive would help resurrect it and promptly wiped all my screenies :-(
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The month-day-year is not ancient, unfortunately. It’s how the guys in the US (and perhaps I should add probably most part of the rest of the world too) are doing date formats. I agree, it’s silly… no, it’s stupid even :)
I suggest that all presidents, dictators and other governments who read this excellent blog subscribe to the Swedish national standard: yyyy/mm/dd.
I’m sure the world would become more peaceful too – at least Tessy will stay calm ;)
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Me calm = world peace!
And I should have guessed the inane date format was an american thing, goes well with their silly random metering systems as well…
Acuatually it should be DD/MM/YYY :D
You are all mad! Mad, I say! :-)
Oh, I hadn’t even noticed this, because I always sort them in windows by the date they were created..
Guess I am a computer noob (true!) or maybe it’s Vista that won’t show me the lists like other Windows OS (also possible!), but I can’t sort my screenshots that way :-(
I will have to keep ranting!
It looks perfectly normal to me, but then again I’m an American and we have established that they will take away our archaic date formats, temperature, liquid, and distance units when they take away OUR FREEDOM!
(Okay so my argument is slightly weakened by quoting a movie staring a Scottish hero. Obviously I need to brush up on my Patriot quotes)
:)
Found your blog from Righteous Orbs, btw.
Ah, Braveheart – good film!
A good American quote I always giggle at is “I did not have sexual relations with that woman!” Not very Patriot I guess, and not sure how it can be used to defend using illogical metering systems though as it didn’t even manage to defend Clinton himself, but it’s good for a laugh :-)