Did Apple change the directory structure for their photos?

Well, in that regard, they have failed, and for many years!

That update was a very "short-term" fortunate step in the right direction, but it seems they have reverted it, and thus back to making things difficult. And that translates into "the user experience"

What Lawrence means is that you and everyone else on this forum, people who are actually intelligent enough to even discover that these directory formats exist, aren't worthy of knowing Apple's secrets. As for "optimizing performance", I highly doubt that adding "_h" to the end of a folder name makes anything more efficient.

I honestly wonder how many non-answers you have to give on this forum to build up 100k+ points.

Then you are honestly CLUELESS about how points are awarded. Do you normally spout off based on no knowledge whatsoever? There is only one way to get points (other than the 4 points you get just for posting once, as you did). Post a response to a NEW post (that’s the first post in a thread) that the original poster marks as Helpful (5 points) or Solved (10 points). So my almost 150,000 points means that somewhere between 15,000 and 30,000 original posters thought my responses were helpful or solved their problem. I’m sorry you didn’t find my post helpful.

"You should never have copied photos from the iPhone’s folder structure" really?, been doing that way for 10+ years and never had to deal with this crap before, internal storage/DCIM/APPLE100 you see, I don't want to load up my computer with crap like Itunes et/al and other software... It negates the point of using it as a mass storage device.

also, I don't want to sound difficult, but just who are you to make that kind of statement any way?, you might use yours one way, but, we all are not you...

Just saying

PS. IDC about points LOL

bcs1a wrote:

I don't want to sound difficult, but just who are you to make that kind of statement any way?, you might use yours one way, but, we all are not you...

I like easy questions. Here is Apple’s guidance on how to copy photos from an iOS device→Transfer photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support. You will note that copying them from the file structure is not in that support article, and has never been in any support article. Thus, it is not a “supported” method in Apple’s guidance. If it works for you at the moment, that’s great, but Apple is not guaranteeing that it will work in the future or that it will work the same way from one iOS update to another (as is clear from recent experience that it doesn’t). And, in fact, it doesn’t work as well as the recommended method, which allows for file type conversions based on the capabilities of the receiving device.

With all the chatter about how the Iphone is the best thing since sliced bread, I decided to get one, if I could get my money back, I would...

As far as Mister (I am an apple g0d, you must obey me) Finch, it seems he cares not to acknowledge anything that he has not decreed...

oh well, we live, we learn...

Listen hear Lawrence the Nazi! You don't worry about what the end user does. Copy and paste is a fundamental windows command and I've been saving pictures since the iPhone 3 using copy and paste. Your attitude about what the end user can do is not your concern. I'm just as ****** as everybody else when fundamental changes are made with out telling the end users who are paying big money to upgrade these phones every 2 years. stick to relevant tech help and leave your opinions to yourself

Same answer that I posted above.

Mine has since gone to the YYYY_MM format back to the 133_APPLE folder name. Anyone know how to switch this back??

edit, nevermind

Well I’m about to update my phone to 14.7.1. Pray for me.

How come it changed back to stupid xxxApple structure in 14.7??? I do love the improved structure of month_year !!!!

If they change the structure of the folders so often why they present it in Windows Explorer in first place? If it's internal, hide it in Windows Explorer and never bother users with it.

As you would know if you bothered to read other messages in the thread you posted to, no, there is no way to change it back.

I did, and it really is a big bummer! It finally started to make some sense! The other tools Apple provides are terrible for this organizing. I wish they would have kept it, it was "rational".