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Mysterious Image File Names Change
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1841611" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Well, it's been over eight months, so it is probably too late to ask her what she was doing that day, which normally would be the first question. Did she install anything that day? Did she add anything to the system? Does she use Photos and how does she do that (import or use external files)? What is the "structure" you see to the file names? Date/time, sequential, what? Can you get a screenshot of a few of these in Finder in the list view so we can see the patterns to analyze? Do the console logs from that far back still exist? If so, is there anything it the logs? Does she have, and sync to, an iPhone or iPad through iCloud? Does she sync to a non-Apple device? Did she make any changes in how she uses iCloud that day? Does she use any other syncing service for images?</p><p></p><p>Malwarebytes is OK, but DetectX Swift is a bit better. You can try that, but I doubt it is malware.</p><p></p><p>I seriously doubt there is a way to get the original names back unless she had been making Time Machine backups. Just copying is easy, but not really able to recover from this kind of unwanted change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1841611, member: 396914"] Well, it's been over eight months, so it is probably too late to ask her what she was doing that day, which normally would be the first question. Did she install anything that day? Did she add anything to the system? Does she use Photos and how does she do that (import or use external files)? What is the "structure" you see to the file names? Date/time, sequential, what? Can you get a screenshot of a few of these in Finder in the list view so we can see the patterns to analyze? Do the console logs from that far back still exist? If so, is there anything it the logs? Does she have, and sync to, an iPhone or iPad through iCloud? Does she sync to a non-Apple device? Did she make any changes in how she uses iCloud that day? Does she use any other syncing service for images? Malwarebytes is OK, but DetectX Swift is a bit better. You can try that, but I doubt it is malware. I seriously doubt there is a way to get the original names back unless she had been making Time Machine backups. Just copying is easy, but not really able to recover from this kind of unwanted change. [/QUOTE]
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