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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 13:08:12 -0700
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On 2025-04-23 12:04, Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2025-04-23, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>> On 2025-04-23 10:47, Tyrone wrote:
>>> On Apr 23, 2025 at 12:31:47 PM EDT, "Alan" <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> In the DCIM folder.  You can see it using the iOS SMB Server. One of
>>> the shares it creates is for the DCIM photos folder.
>>
>> Ah! I'd not seen that before.
>>
>> 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.

And and just to tweak Arlen, one of the pictures that I happened to look 
at shows the BMW 135i he claims I don't drive...

....and the 1998 RF98-2 Van Diemen Honda Formula F he claims I don't race!

<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1smiW1xOAcGxuW0Cgnc2AWMEnhccNn8LY/view?usp=share_link>

😎