Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!border-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:31:32 +0000 From: Tyrone Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,rec.photo.digital Subject: Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming? X-No-Archive: Yes References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Usenapp for MacOS X-Usenapp: v1.27.4/l - Full License Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:31:32 +0000 Lines: 59 X-Trace: sv3-mu4bbCUU1Hy4ltIRG9ZhWUqJ7ZheQ5p1TINzsGRFRgyMW2ofAzis0r31zDkNSuX2OVM4xaLsBdotgwR!ZtS4w7QbPF52r5dTs14LTtI+AMimA7M4CAE7ZbVeH429hAHTe5Py/ecfxmrwcjf7+BYcDw/w2nyI!M6+MRoG0w+0= X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:148054 misc.phone.mobile.iphone:194739 rec.photo.digital:244474 On Apr 23, 2025 at 6:25:41 PM EDT, "Alan" wrote: > On 2025-04-23 15:18, Tyrone wrote: >> On Apr 23, 2025 at 4:18:08 PM EDT, "Alan" wrote: >> >>> On 2025-04-23 13:11, Jolly Roger wrote: >>>> On 2025-04-23, Alan wrote: >>>>> On 2025-04-23 12:04, Jolly Roger wrote: >>>>>> On 2025-04-23, Alan 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.