How to get rid of bad chrs?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 12:54:56 -0700, rikona wrote:
>> Btw. on an iPad hidden directories are invisible, so I need to care
>> about this, too.  
>
>I noticed that there also seems to be a hidden file for each visible
>file. A PITA when copying photos/files from an Apple product. Is there
>a way to copy JUST the file and not the hidden file(s)?

I can't confirm this. On Linux I see something like this:
IMG_E6064.JPG
IMG_6064.PNG
IMG_6064.AAE

Apple "Photos" does display IMG_E6064.JPG only.
The original image is from some app, it's IMG_6064.PNG, after editing it
by "Photos", some data file named IMG_6064.AAE and the edited
result IMG_E6064.JPG is stored, but "Photos" doesn't show the original,
let alone the data file, it only shows the edited export.


>> Portability is probably the reason that there's not much choice how
>> to name directories and files by my DSLR camera. The names are very
>> short and an extremly limited character set can be used.  
>
>Yes!!! Back a bit, I was copying photos from multiple sources, into one
>large collection. I had 'duplicate names' and I guess I let some to be
>overwritten - then I discovered some pix I knew I had were missing! I
>finally figured it out, but not before losing some older pix I really
>wanted to keep. I now have some work-arounds for that...

For sRGB the Sony's filenames are

vvv12345.ARW
vvv12345.JPG

vvv are 3 user-defined chars, e.g. "08i" for August and interval. The
Sony does number all the way through, from 00000 to 99999 and then
starts again at 00000. How often a new folder is auto-generated depends
on folder user-defined settings, but the Sony doesn't overwrite
files, at the latest when duplicated filenames are generated, a new
folder is generated, too. AdobeRGB file names are flaged with a _ as
the first char. I don't know if it is added or does replace one of the
user-defined chars. However, if it's wanted to copy all photos in a
single folder, renaming isn't hard to do, since we could keep the
12312345.{ARW,JPG} pattern and simply add somethiong to the file names,
e.g. summer_hoildays_2021-12312345.{ARW,JPG}.