T_Goofy
Electrical
- Jan 27, 2020
- 3
Hi everyone,
I am new here but hope it's the right place for my kind of rather general question: we recently completed a project (10 people working together in different time-zones). Reviewing our activities for continuous improvement, I noted that we had created a total mess file-wise on the shared folder: hundreds of files with names like <sometext>_0.8, <sometext>_0.9, <projectname>_TS-20190512, and so on.
We had some problems finding the right files at the right moment - I remember conversations like "do you still have the design with <some feature>?" Answer: "it must be in one of the older files named <sometext> or so done by <someguy>... He is asleep right now, but I will try to find it after lunch." ... followed by 30min frantic opening and closing of folders and files.
So here's my question: am I the only one with that problem? If not, does anyone have a best practice or tool that allows to find content easily in a shared folder? In an agile work environment, it is quite unlikely that we will have a very well organized file structure, so maybe someone has an idea how to quickly inspect a large number of CAD/Layout/etc. files for content, some search tool or similar...?
Thanks in advance, I appreciate your feedback!
I am new here but hope it's the right place for my kind of rather general question: we recently completed a project (10 people working together in different time-zones). Reviewing our activities for continuous improvement, I noted that we had created a total mess file-wise on the shared folder: hundreds of files with names like <sometext>_0.8, <sometext>_0.9, <projectname>_TS-20190512, and so on.
We had some problems finding the right files at the right moment - I remember conversations like "do you still have the design with <some feature>?" Answer: "it must be in one of the older files named <sometext> or so done by <someguy>... He is asleep right now, but I will try to find it after lunch." ... followed by 30min frantic opening and closing of folders and files.
So here's my question: am I the only one with that problem? If not, does anyone have a best practice or tool that allows to find content easily in a shared folder? In an agile work environment, it is quite unlikely that we will have a very well organized file structure, so maybe someone has an idea how to quickly inspect a large number of CAD/Layout/etc. files for content, some search tool or similar...?
Thanks in advance, I appreciate your feedback!