Survey, Do you rename files before bringing them into Aperture.

I'm curious the percentage of us that rename the original files (so we don't have a bunch of images named something like _ACH0001) before final import into Aperture. This includes either editing them then renaming them outside of Aperture and bringing the edited images into Aperture, or bringing them into Aperture, editing them, renaming the kept versions, exporting the masters with the new version name and finally re-importing them back into Aperture.
So the question is:
Do you rename the original files before bringing them into Aperture?
My answer is a definite...
Yes

Since this thread has generated some interesting discussion, let me add some further clarification on our approach:
1) We use a standard file naming convention NNNddddddssss, where "NNN" = photographer's initials (we need to track multiple photographers); "dddddd" = a unique alpha-numeric date code that will handle any date from 1/1/1850 to the foreseeable future; and "ssss" is a unique image sequence number.
2) This file naming convention was established long before Aperture was released, supporting a multi-photographer, multi-camera, Photoshop-based workflow. It was also designed to handle scanned images in addition to camera generated images, as we will be scanning and cataloging many historical family images (some copies of original photos over 100 years old) over the next few years.
3) Since our large base of image files would be converted to Aperture with this naming scheme in place, it made sense to keep this file naming scheme for new files.
Granted, we could just use this scheme for assigning Aperture version names, without worrying about the underlying file name. However, it is more consistent, for our uses, to use the file naming process and ingestion workflow we used pre-Aperture. And the approach has the added advantage that it doesn't matter whether we use image name or version name in our Aperture views. (It seems the default sort order for new projects/albums/etc. is image name, a bit annoying actually given the focus of Aperture on versions.)
So whether one uses just version names, or version names and renamed image names, the really important thing is to design and use an open-ended naming scheme that can handle multiple uses, and multiple image sources, on the front end of any digital asset management strategy -- whether that asset management is done in Aperture, in Bridge, or in a cataloging application like iView Media Pro.
Mike
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