Creative File Storage Best Practices
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- juniorJR
Looking for tips on creating a system of saving graphic files within our design department. Any tips?
- juniorJR0
digital asset management
- akrok0
even though. good file names, just make it easier in general.
- akrok0
use folders. concepts, finals, pdf, psd, etc.
- d_rek0
There was a thread about this a while back... let me see if i can dig it up.
- juniorJR0
d_rek: weren't we talking about this yesterday?
- d_rek0
http://www.qbn.com/topics/632635…
Also, add _README files to toplevel folders explaining file organization and naming.
- i LOVE LOVE LOVE putting _worker_ in there it's going right before our draft #timeless
- d_rek0
Ohhh you bastard.
- Miesfan0
Talk with this guy
- Continuity0
My own personal folder structure is usually something like:
Client Name > Project Name,
... in which you will find:
00 Assets > 00 From Client, 01 Gathered
01 Planning (For pitches, cost estimates, research, etc)
02 Concept > Concept 1, Concept 2, Concept 3, etc
03 Production > css, images, scripts, etcI've used this structure anywhere I've worked, and my colleagues have always appreciated it.
- I like this....vaxorcist
- I should say that when a concept has been approved, I put a README in the root 02 Concept folder indicating which concept is finalContinuity
- ... approved and final.Continuity
- bulletfactory0
I wrote an article about how I do it...
http://www.thisistwhite.com/blog…
- LOL Cube in the background?dbloc
- always - "they see me lollin'..."bulletfactory
- dMullins0
This is the method I prefer...
Top-level Folders:
3-letter client name
All four digits of the yearProject Sub-folders:
- Internal project number
- dash (don't use underscores, use dashes with spaces around them so you can jump between words if needed for renaming, etc.)
- Short name (New Corporate Pocket Folder)Assets within project folders:
- _assets (logo files, source materials from client like head shots, etc.)
- _docs (any docs you need to have locally; e.g., copy for flowing)
- project-type folders (www, psd, staging, etc.)So, for example:
- dbloc0
everything should be named untitled.
start with untitled1 and just increment up as you go.
- doesnotexist0
just throw everything in one folder with client's name, what's the big deal
- orpkoobcam20
Why don't people just sit down at their desks and think a problem through? Nowadays they post on a forum and then people send links in to articles where know-it-alls have got on their high horses and written up blog articles on their methods - which aren't going to work universally as they are too tailored to a specific circumstance
The internet is getting full up with blogs full of know it alls talking about best practice. I do wish they would shut up.
