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Originally Posted by gvdv
I see some professionals using underscores in file names instead of spaces, but I have to admit I have not fully investigated the potential advantages and disadvantages of doing that.
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Back in the early Bronze Age, operating systems did not support spaces in file names. Couldn’t have dashes either, so we had to use underscores. Course we only had 8 characters to work with (file-type extension not included), so most of the time you just smashed everything together and/or used abbreviations. In the 21st century, you can type a whole sentence describing the file if you want. There are still some special characters which aren’t allowed, but we can use spaces and dashes and there’s no good reason not to.