When you upload a picture to a social media or other site, does that site create their own name for the file? Is that long name you created which contained information about the picture now a random string of numbers and characters? That’s why it’s even more important to include some identification or citation information on the image itself.
The image in the illustration had a long name I had created for it that included the name of the person involved, the county where the estate inventory was located, and a packet number. When I went to Facebook to download the file to another device, I was reminded that Facebook created their own name for the file as shown in the illustration from the “file save” menu.
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Boy that’s irritating!
All that trouble to develop a file naming system and they zap it when uploading.
I’ve seen that happen and renamed the files when they were uploaded to the program or page I was using.
Time consuming, but necessary when the file is passed to the next person or archive!
Piffft!
Carla
If metadata had been added to a file, would that disappear also? Just wondering.