Sujet : Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming?
De : candycanearter07 (at) *nospam* candycanearter07.nomail.afraid (candycanearter07)
Groupes : comp.mobile.android misc.phone.mobile.iphone rec.photo.digitalDate : 23. Apr 2025, 22:50:03
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Tyrone <
none@none.none> wrote at 22:35 this Tuesday (GMT):
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.
At least that format would give you 16^32 different files, or 3.4e38.
Excluding any possibly restricted filenames, that is still a lot.
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Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming?
Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming?