Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming?

On Apr 22, 2025 at 5:59:17 PM EDT, "Tyrone" <none@none.none> wrote:

And what exactly is the "decent name" you get from Apple? On my Macs and my
iCloud-connected Windows PCs, I get names like "IMG_4737.jpg".  Why is
"IMG_4737.jpg" a better name than "5C297223-793B-4508-A22F-BC319105026B.jpg"?
  Both are totally arbitrary names.  Both are totally meaningless.

It just hit me why Apple uses these file names for photos. Being a programmer
(for 40 years) it is obvious that those are all Hex digits. 8 digits-4
digits-4 digits-4 digits-12 digits. Letters between A and F. That they are
broken up by dashes probably has some context.

The file names have to be absolutely unique so that MY files don't get
overwritten by someone else's files in iCloud.  And vice-versa.

Apple is storing billions of photos.  The worst thing that could happen is
that files get crossed.