seandenigris / Resources-Live

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Sane Filenames #13

Open seandenigris opened 7 years ago

seandenigris commented 7 years ago

Although we could easily make totally random filenames (e.g. UIDs), what if the project becomes abandonware or the data gets corrupted? We'd like to leave the filesystem in a state so that operations can continue merrily along without the app. So the principle is: Looking at the filesystem, no one should have any idea that the app even exists; it should look like the work of an extremely-disciplined user.

seandenigris commented 5 years ago

This is harder in practice than it seems, especially for e.g. scraped URLs which are unsanitized input and could wreak havoc with FS