[jasonkester]

I was there until I saw this feature:

Automatic de-duplication of photos with the same name

I recently went through a year’s worth of photos from my wife’s phone, and found three distinct “img_0001.jpg”’s just in that single year. Apple’s naming convention is so short sighted that I’d be terrified letting a piece of software try to dedupe it “by name “

[j16sdiz]

> ... Apple’s naming convention.

No, it is not. It came from DCF standard that predates smart phones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_sy...

[j16sdiz]

The 4 digits numbers are, of cause, came from the 8.3 file name length constraint. Gonna love CP/M.

[jasonkester]

Replying to myself to tell me that I'm wrong.

I'm running this on my icloud photos now, and it seems to be dropping them nicely into folders by year and month:

D:\Pictures\icpd\2026\01\01

... so my wife will need to step up her game and start taking 10,000 photos a month before I run afoul of this.