Arghhhh… I just sent off the wrong version to a client. In this case, it wasn’t all my fault, not that it matters.
For this project we’ve got three people involved. Me, the client and the client’s secretary. I write, submit to the client who edits on paper, gives that to his secretary who enters the edits and sends the revised edition to me. I should have worked with the secretary to determine exactly how we’d deal with version numbers, but I thought what I was doing was clear… chapter number, brief title, date, my initials. We muddled along with me adapting to the secretary’s file naming procedure which seems fairly random to me. Then, over the holidays the secretary missed one I sent… and I wasn’t paying attention either or would have noticed I hadn’t gotten an “I got this” from the client.
Come to think about it, part of the confusion is because when I send to the client, at his request, I also send a copy to his secretary… hind sight would say that’s too many copies floating around.
We’ve got it sorted out and fortunately the end of the project is in sight and the duplicate work isn’t too extensive… maybe not quite an hour on my part.
But I could use some advice. How do you name your files so everyone knows what version you’re working on?
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