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

On 2025-04-23 12:04, Jolly Roger wrote:

On 2025-04-23, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2025-04-23 10:47, Tyrone wrote:

On Apr 23, 2025 at 12:31:47 PM EDT, "Alan" <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2025-04-22 15:35, Tyrone wrote:

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

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

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Where does Apple use long file names like that?
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I've never seen any on any of my devices.

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In the DCIM folder.  You can see it using the iOS SMB Server. One of
the shares it creates is for the DCIM photos folder.

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Ah! I'd not seen that before.
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I'm wondering why some have those names and some have the shorter
"IMG_###.jpg/heic" form...

 It could be that the IMG_### files were created before Apple switched to
UUIDs.
 

I don't think that's it...
Let me start up the LAN Drive software again.
Yeah... ...looking at recent files on "DCIM", I see files mixed in together: UUID names and IMG_#### names.
The first two with UUID names are files imported from others sources and then the IMG_#### named files that follow are pictures (and screenshots and screen recordings) taken on my iPhone.
That seems to be a theme: items taken on my iPhone have IMG_#### names and items from other sources...
...INCLUDING FROM MY OWN OTHER iOS DEVICES...
...get UUID names.
And and just to tweak Arlen, one of the pictures that I happened to look at shows the BMW 135i he claims I don't drive...
...and the 1998 RF98-2 Van Diemen Honda Formula F he claims I don't race!
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1smiW1xOAcGxuW0Cgnc2AWMEnhccNn8LY/view?usp=share_link>
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