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Kathrine3
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1 year ago
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My image files are missing the .jpg extension and cannot be opened

Hey    About 3 weeks ago I wanted to organize the folder "camera upload". I created new folders 2009, 2010, 2011 and so on, made a search for every single year e.g 2010 and moved the pictures to ...
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    1 year ago
    Kathrine3 wrote:

    Many files have the same date but but a different time ... so I can´t just rename file no. 2  2018-12-24.JPG because it then will be a copy of the first.

    Sure you can. Add the extension after the time so it looks like 2018-12-24 13.05.33.jpg. It will still work.

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Rich
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1 year ago
Kathrine3 wrote:

Many files have the same date but but a different time ... so I can´t just rename file no. 2  2018-12-24.JPG because it then will be a copy of the first.

Sure you can. Add the extension after the time so it looks like 2018-12-24 13.05.33.jpg. It will still work.

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Kathrine3
Explorer | Level 3
1 year ago

of course🙈 -  thanks😊

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