Question: Do people rename their photo taken from their camera/phones from IMG20250717101350.jpeg to something else? And would they find it useful to display it on the main photo grid view of a Photos app?
As far as I know, neither the macOS, iOS, Android nor Windows photos app display this information on their grid view.
I personally find the automatic sorting by location, time or faces much more useful to navigate a photo album.
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David Revoy
in reply to Carl Schwan • • •Got a photo album with thousands scanned material from 1900 to now, I rename all to YYYYMMDD_hhmmssmillisec
I simply hate when phone use prefix IMG_ or VID_; mimetype is a thing, no need to annunce the data type in the filename...
I also hate how Signal/WhatsApp/Messenger and all this apps are renaming photos, destroy original filenames and flush the Exif of the photos. Really inferior way to share photos but so common...
I made bash script here to reconstruct Exif and rename photos.
David Revoy
in reply to David Revoy • • •Btw, if someone is interested by my Bash script, I uploaded it here: invent.kde.org/-/snippets/3523
Around line 175 there is a long list of common gibberish that digital camera and apps input in filenames collected over 20 years (like DSC_***, ***_BURST, ***_HDR, IMG_***, etc... ).
exifDateThis.sh ($3523) · Snippets · GitLab
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