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

From Tyrone <none@none.none>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone, rec.photo.digital
Subject Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming?
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Date 2025-04-23 22:31 +0000

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On Apr 23, 2025 at 6:25:41 PM EDT, "Alan" <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

> On 2025-04-23 15:18, Tyrone wrote:
>> 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:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> My thought exactly.
>>> 
>>> :-)
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Yeah.
> 
> It's almost like Apple knows what they're doing.
> 
> ;-)

And again, its almost like Arlen doesn't know anything about anything. Look at
how ridiculous his original post is in this thread. Trolling along as usual.

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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
          Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-22 16:36 +0000
            Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-22 16:50 +0000
              Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-22 10:32 -0700
              Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-04-22 21:24 +0000
      Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-22 16:29 +0000
        Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? David <BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-04-22 21:27 +0100
        Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-04-22 22:34 +0200
          Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-24 04:55 +0000
        Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-22 21:59 +0000
          Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-04-22 22:05 +0000
            Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-22 22:14 +0000
          Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-22 22:35 +0000
            Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-04-23 08:32 +0200
              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
                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Bill W <nothing@nowhere.com> - 2025-04-24 11:14 -0500
                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-24 09:43 -0700
                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Bill W <nothing@nowhere.com> - 2025-04-24 12:55 -0500
                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-24 11:12 -0700
            Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-23 09:31 -0700
              Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-23 17:47 +0000
                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-23 11:03 -0700
                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
                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-24 04:22 +0000
                Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-23 22:15 -0700
            Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-23 21:50 +0000
    Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-04-22 15:40 -0700

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