How you organize and name your files will have a big impact on your ability to find those files later and to understand what they contain. You should be consistent and descriptive in naming and organizing files so that it is obvious where to find specific data and what the files contain.

File names for your attachment should allow you to identify enough information from the name – without need to open the file.

When you save email conversations to Google Drive, you can select from  the following options for attachment filename formats:

1. email message filename – attachment_name
2. attachment_name
3. date attachment_name
4. [from] date attachment_name
5. [to] [from] date attachment_name

email message filename – attachment_name

For example, if you select one email conversation which has two attachments:

…each attachment is saved using the email message filename – attachment_name format:

attachment_name

For example, if you select one email conversation which has two attachments:

…each attachment is saved using the attachment_name format:

date attachment_name

For example, if you select one email conversation which has two attachments:

…each attachment is saved using date attachment_name format:

[from] date attachment_name

For example, if you select one email conversation which has two attachments:

…each conversation is saved using [from] date attachment_name format:

[to] [from] date attachment_name

For example, if you select one email conversation which has two attachments:

…each attachment is saved using [to] [from] date attachment_name format: