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

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone, rec.photo.digital
Subject Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming?
Date 2025-04-23 20:11 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <m6svr9Fet6U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References (3 earlier) <vub4lk$3e2ab$1@dont-email.me> <ec6cnYjmXqtbupT1nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@supernews.com> <vuba2g$3kpek$1@dont-email.me> <m6sru1Fuc89U1@mid.individual.net> <vubhbd$3l2ga$1@dont-email.me>

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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:
>>>
>>> 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.

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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Does anyone here have experience with "photofs"? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-22 02:51 +0000
  Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-22 03:05 +0000
    Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-04-22 07:58 +0200
      Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Bill W <nothing@nowhere.com> - 2025-04-22 10:36 -0500
        Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-04-22 15:56 +0000
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              Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-04-22 21:24 +0000
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              Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-24 04:30 +0000
                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-23 22:12 -0700
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                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-04-23 19:04 +0000
                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-23 13:08 -0700
                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-04-23 20:11 +0000
                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-23 13:18 -0700
                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-23 22:18 +0000
                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-23 15:25 -0700
                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-23 22:31 +0000
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                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-23 22:15 -0700
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