Name your files like you’re back in 1998—no spaces, no dashes, just underscores.
This made me laugh because it’s painfully true. I swear, these portals are allergic to anything but underscores. One time I tried uploading “kitchen-remodel-final-final.pdf” (yes, the double final) and got hit with the dreaded error message. Ended up with “kitchen_remodel_final_final.pdf” and it worked, but only after compressing it three times because apparently a color floor plan is “too large to process.”
And don’t even get me started on the file size thing. Five megabytes is nothing when you’re dealing with high-res elevations. I’ve had to screenshot drawings just to get under the limit, which feels like sending a Polaroid to city hall.
Honestly, I’d almost prefer waiting behind the fence-height debaters. At least then I could zone out and daydream about paint swatches instead of playing file-name whack-a-mole.
