Packet Logs Your QA Lead Will Actually Open

Packet logs die in shared drives because filenames look like cat walks on keyboards. We show a naming recipe that survives midnight releases and still sorts sensibly in Finder.

Paragraph two covers redaction: how to strip patient-adjacent strings without stripping the signal QA cares about. The trick is a two-pass script with a human checkpoint—not blind regex.

We finish with a blunt limitation: if legal insists on storing raw logs indefinitely, this article cannot fix your storage bill. It only keeps humans reading the right slice.