{"id":5470,"date":"2016-09-19T07:51:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T12:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2016-09-18T22:58:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T03:58:29","slug":"do-sites-change-your-images-filename","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/19\/do-sites-change-your-images-filename\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Sites Change Your Image&#8217;s Filename?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s why it&#8217;s even more important to include some identification or citation information on the image itself.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;file save&#8221; menu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/facebook-image-upload.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5471\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/facebook-image-upload.jpg\" alt=\"facebook-image-upload\" width=\"800\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/facebook-image-upload.jpg 800w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/facebook-image-upload-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/facebook-image-upload-768x629.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/facebook-image-upload-624x511.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s why it&#8217;s even more important to include some identification or citation information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}