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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo
 naming?
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:31:47 -0700
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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.