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

On Apr 23, 2025 at 4:18:08 PM EDT, "Alan" <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
 

On 2025-04-23 13:11, Jolly Roger wrote:

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

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

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

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I'm wondering why some have those names and some have the shorter
"IMG_###.jpg/heic" form...

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

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I don't think that's it...
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Let me start up the LAN Drive software again.
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Yeah... ...looking at recent files on "DCIM", I see files mixed in
together: UUID names and IMG_#### names.
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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.
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That seems to be a theme: items taken on my iPhone have IMG_#### names
and items from other sources...
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...INCLUDING FROM MY OWN OTHER iOS DEVICES...
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...get UUID names.

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That makes sense, because photos imported from other devices definitely
need to have universally unique names to avoid conflicts with photos
that originated on the device.
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My thought exactly.
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:-)

 Ahh, I get it now.  I was ONLY seeing the very long files names, because I am
looking at DCIM on an iPad.  ALL of these files came from iCloud, because I
rarely take a picture using the iPad.
 So to test, I took a picture on my iPad. The new file is indeed IMG_0089.HEIC.
 So mystery solved, and there is a VERY good reason for the long file names.