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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.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: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:31:47 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: <vub4lk$3e2ab$1@dont-email.me> References: <vu707r$ct2$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <vu7127$2e1e$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <vu7b6h$3u07r$1@dont-email.me> <vu8g51$24lt$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <NrCdncN7kaWojJX1nZ2dnZfqn_GdnZ2d@supernews.com> <3j-dnXJunf4_hJX1nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@supernews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:31:50 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="957971b2df2861ea9a3305dc528f179f"; logging-data="3606859"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX187kt5PE2ZKmcSpCTXgdmUojWUnAOrmi/4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:f7vQ0yn1k+TYsUbffNJsbznEh2Q= Content-Language: en-CA In-Reply-To: <3j-dnXJunf4_hJX1nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@supernews.com> Bytes: 2415 On 2025-04-22 15:35, Tyrone wrote: > 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. Where does Apple use long file names like that? I've never seen any on any of my devices.