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System payoff!
Mar. 20th, 2013 01:43 pmA while back, while putting together an AutoHotKey macro to help automate office procedures (loosely defined as any routine thing I keep doing over and over for each assignment), I inserted a step to create an empty zip file with the name of the project.
I had begun to create such zip files for multifile projects, so as to avoid having to attach multiple files to a delivery, with the happy side effect of a smaller resulting delivery package.
Generally, single-file projects are returned unzipped, unless the compression is impressive or the client requests an encrypted zip file. (I am amused by clients who require me to sign a draconian NDA requiring my utmost confidentiality and promising dire consequences if I don't lock their materials overnight in a MILSPEC safe, but who then send assignment files unencrypted over the 'net, but I digress...)
That doesn't happen very often, however, so there is a temptation, in the majority of cases where the zip file is not needed, to not add such "singles" to the zip.
Well, it turns out that adding completed translations to project zip files is probably a good idea, even for such "singles," because I just had occasion to open up an old file to re-use some complex document formatting for a translation that came in a little while ago, and after making a whole lot of changes to that file, I automatically saved everything, having forgotten to do a save-as first.
And while it's not a whole lot of backbreaking work to hit the outbox archive, it sure is easier to fetch the original file from that zip, let me tell you!
Cheers...
I had begun to create such zip files for multifile projects, so as to avoid having to attach multiple files to a delivery, with the happy side effect of a smaller resulting delivery package.
Generally, single-file projects are returned unzipped, unless the compression is impressive or the client requests an encrypted zip file. (I am amused by clients who require me to sign a draconian NDA requiring my utmost confidentiality and promising dire consequences if I don't lock their materials overnight in a MILSPEC safe, but who then send assignment files unencrypted over the 'net, but I digress...)
That doesn't happen very often, however, so there is a temptation, in the majority of cases where the zip file is not needed, to not add such "singles" to the zip.
Well, it turns out that adding completed translations to project zip files is probably a good idea, even for such "singles," because I just had occasion to open up an old file to re-use some complex document formatting for a translation that came in a little while ago, and after making a whole lot of changes to that file, I automatically saved everything, having forgotten to do a save-as first.
And while it's not a whole lot of backbreaking work to hit the outbox archive, it sure is easier to fetch the original file from that zip, let me tell you!
Cheers...
