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On Apr 23, 2025 at 4:18:08 PM EDT, "Alan" <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

> On 2025-04-23 13:11, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2025-04-23, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>> On 2025-04-23 12:04, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>> On 2025-04-23, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> 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.