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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo
 naming?
Date: 22 Apr 2025 22:05:15 GMT
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On 2025-04-22, Tyrone <none@none.none> wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2025 at 12:29:22 PM EDT, "Marion" <marion@facts.com> wrote:
>
>> Just to let you know, other adults on the Apple operating system newsgroups
>> have also complained about the file-naming conventions of iOS which
>> basically force you to log into Apple's mainframes to get decent names.
>
> What exactly is the problem?  It's just a file name.  Once you copy it over
> from DCIM, feel free to change it to whatever you want. 
>
> BTW, last week you didn't even know that you COULD connect to DCIM on any
> iDevice. You denied it for days. You called us all liars. Once we
> bitch-slapped you out of your "privileged ports" fantasy land and into
> reality, you FINALLY accepted the facts.   
>
> 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. 
>
> And one is no harder to change than the other. 
>
> And what makes you think Apple has "mainframes"?  Much more likely - not to
> mention cheaper/easier to program and maintain - would be racks of
> load-balanced Mac Minis. Apple probably has their own internal hardware
> configuration of Mac servers running the entire show. All running MacOS (Unix)
> of course. Exactly how much horsepower do you think is needed to store photos
> and forward text messages/emails? 
>
> Sounds to me like you just need SOMETHING new to complain about, now that you
> have been PROVEN WRONG about (1) the Files app and (2) the iOS SMB Server.  
> Even worse than that, you had to admit that iOS can do something that Android
> can't do.

That's *exactly* what this is: he's desperately trying to move on from
his embarrassing file transfer troll to a different troll.

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