iphone 5 very long filenames C469C8CD-0205-4D33-875D-FD84DDD

[yakcora]

I'm on latest version of everything ios, app and eyefi center

when the pictures come through the file names are like C469C8CD-0205-4D33-875D-FD84DDD7B451.JPG

I see the app sees it the same way too but if I connect my phone to my pc the file names are normal like 100000450.jpg

how can I get back to human readable file names?

[manus_eiffel]

Could not agree more. I've already posted an entry on that front but not reply after a week:
http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5546#p21174

Manu

[berend]

when the pictures come through the file names are like C469C8CD-0205-4D33-875D-FD84DDD7B451.JPG... I see the app sees it the same way too but if I connect my phone to my pc the file names are normal like 100000450.jpg

iOS (any version) does not make it possible for apps running on the devices to get at the names that the files are recorded with on the file system. These names are used to display the file system structure when plugged-in via USB, but are not available to our (or any other app). Prior to iOS 5, what we were given was a numeric "asset ID" for camera roll items that, while different from the file system names, was at least a simple number. In iOS 5, the asset IDs have changed to a UUID format, which is the long file name that you are seeing. At this point we are faced with either making up names and losing any correlation files uploaded out of iOS may have with the original device or using the UUIDs verbatim. During the initial launch of iOS 5, we've elected to do the latter and we're waiting to see if any other APIs may become available through the SDKs.

If you ware aware of any app that under iOS 5 is able to display or use names that correspond directly to the names that your computer displays when your iOS device is plugged-in via USB, please let us know.

Berend

[manus_eiffel]

I don't know the internals of the application, but my guess is that you are somehow keeping a table of all those UUID to find out if you have already uploaded an image or not. If you do, one could imagine that you would come up with your own name like IMG_xxxx and you keep the xxxx as the counter for the last uploaded images. It would be completely fine with me that they are different than the one provided when plugged-in via USB.

Manu

[casonbang]

That's a reasonable explanation, but I hope you will reconsider the issue.

Is there any advantage to having the UUID in the filename outside of iOS? It seems to me that once the file leaves the phone, that UUID becomes worthless.

The main problem with the UUID is that they aren't assigned in order, so photos synced to a computer appear out of order when sorted by name. It would be nice for the Eye-Fi names to match the PhotoStream names, but I'd imagine that most Eye-Fi addicts will use the app as their primary photo storage and management with PhotoStream as a backup. (Eye-Fi's major advantage here is the video clip syncing. Apple has no solution for that.)

I'd love an option to name all images (and videos) synced to my computer in chronological sequence.

[berend]

We hear you and we will have an improvement for this situation coming up in a new release of the app.

Berend

[jmacias]

CameraSync App seems to be able to get the actual filename.

[yakcora]

Thanks jmacias

it looks like I am out 2 bucks for the app but it definitely works