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| From | candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> |
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| 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 21:50 +0000 |
| Organization | the-candyden-of-code |
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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: > >> 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. -- user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom
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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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