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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/AccidentalNGon on 2024-06-24 22:53:27+00:00.

Over time, my family and I have used several different brands of phones from iPhone, Galaxy, and Pixel. They all save their photos with a different naming convention. iPhones seem to be the most useless, with IMG_[INCREASINGNUMBER] as the file name. No information as to when it was taken. Pixel comes in second place here, with filenames being PXL_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS[Milliseconds]. Samsung has the most usable naming convention out of the box, with YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.

Unfortunately, this means that all of our photos are completely out of order when placed in the same folder. Samsung photos come first, then iPhone, then Pixel.

Bulk Rename Utility can rename files based on EXIF metadata. However, not all of our photos retained their “time taken” information (and I am unsure as to why this is), especially the ones taken on iPhones. How are you supposed to organize your photos properly?