The System 648: What’s In A Filename?

May 16th, 2013

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What’s the worst file name on your computer?

Why are they finalists? Because I want YOU to choose the winner! You’ve got until Monday the 20th, 2013. GO!

Update: The votes are in!

With a total of 968 responses, the results are:

indexOLD2.html … 14.26%
asdfqweklrj~1.doc … 30.17%
DRAFTBrand_Logo_FINAL_NEW_r07b.psd … 55.58%

A close match, but once again proving that nobody likes a file that just won’t stay done. Thanks to all of you for voting!

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rossmom

Any I can't pronounce.
Will

iexplore.exe
Amanda

I had to go with the .PSD because I have that on my machine. Many times over
Thomas

What she said (Amanda).

The worst file name on my computer is always the same as the name I sent it away with before the client/friend/foe worked in their changes … even leaving aside the horror of knowing they didn't even consider a backup.
Kükenschublade

2013-05-16-whatsinaname.gif
- rosscott
  
  I see what you did there.
@AndrewDodds

Stupidsign2.pub Because one stupid sign just wasn't enough for me in 2004, apparently.
Tony Wonder

i've always been partial to "photo(1).jpg"
- madjo80
  
  preview(7).mp3 without any id3 tags.
parasitepaladin

I don't know about files, but that system32 folder is looking pretty stupid. I should just delete it.
Erik

Ah, but asdfqweklrj~1.doc is the worst name once you realize that it's not a document at all – it's a graphics file sent by a client.
- rosscott
  
  OOF.
- Evan
  
  This pleases me.
passerby

Here are a couple from bash.im:

"aza kokeshka hehehehehehehehehehe da Dambal.xls" contained tax report for the 3rd quarter of 2006. No it doesn't make any sense in the author's native language, even accounting for common encoding and layout errors.

"С:Business crapButt painDumb clientsDefaultersNutsDear Sergey Anatolyevich.doc" self-explanatory.
passerby

Correction: "С:\Business crap\Butt pain\Dumb clients\Defaulters\Nuts\Dear Sergey Anatolyevich.doc" Single backslashes are lost.
- passerby
  
  So are double. What about slashes? "С:/Business crap/Butt pain/Dumb clients/Defaulters/Nuts/Dear Sergey Anatolyevich.doc"
PaperclipBadger

I think the reigning champion sweeps it again, just because it is apparently the NEW DRAFT FINAL. If only it had OLD or DEPRECATED or CONDEMNED in there as well…
@set_iroN

284326_159732024103647_100002005515980_316261_5375499_n.jpg
Worst thing is, I have 150 of the like.
That Guy

Daaella3,!9$!.doc
I don't even know why.
Andy Goodell

RIP RSS 🙁
TheScottymo

untitled(6)_454561.JPEG
krickit

I do have this folder, "WHYAMIDOINGTHISSOLATE"
Alex

I've seen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.doc. No idea what was in it.
ershc

~/temp/very/keepme.txt
madjo80

Last place? Oh! COME ON! Why do I always pick the underdog in these fights? *sigh*
Evan

Confused. Is it the "best" filename like the most bad that we are voting for? Or the best as in most correct (actual meaning of the word best)?
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Ian

The first one rather annoys me…

~1 is what happens when a long filename is converted to an 8.3 filename, so really that file should have been ASDFQW~1.DOC
mrputter

> What’s the worst file name

Thumbs.db

Mostly because they spring up like mushrooms in a rainforest, and nothing I can do gets rid of them for long. So I just have to live withh all this crap cluttering up my every single working directory.
- rosscott
  
  This is true!
James

asdf… is the worst here. The others are bad, but might mean something in context, be part of some arcane naming scheme, or have some other redeeming reason for existing.

On my system, the worst is a three-way tie between "document1.odt", "screenshot.png" and "untitled folder" Sadly, I have no one to blame but myself for any of those.
@MeisterJ

I was getting mad at a video I was editing and named one of the exports blee bloop. then there are the ones I just use cursing as the title, and after than keyboard mashing.
Katarn

donaleLARGEBanner_new_final_updateBACKUP(2).cdr
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Timothy Black

If I were you, I will just choose a file name that can be easily remembered.
Cyrana

oh gods i had so many “DRAFTLogo_Date_Brand etc.”s at work

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