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Kathrine3
Explorer | Level 3
6 months ago

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 the new folder "2010". My problem is that I can´t open the pictures in 3 of the folders. Instead of .jpg every picture is named like this:

so... what can I do to get my pictures back? They are no longer in the camera upload-folder, so I´m lost!

Best regards 

Kathrine

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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    6 months 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.

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
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    6 months ago

    That looks like whatever uploaded them didnt add the extension to the files. A rename to include .jpg at the end should work.

    • Kathrine3's avatar
      Kathrine3
      Explorer | Level 3
      6 months ago

      Hey Mark

       

      I have tried it, but it is not working (if I´m doing it correctly)

      Can I rewind the map, so that the pictures will be replaced in the originally folder "camera uploads"?

      • Rich's avatar
        Rich
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        6 months ago
        Kathrine3 wrote:

        I have tried it, but it is not working (if I´m doing it correctly)

        What does one of the complete filenames look like after you've renamed them?

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