Altered filetype when transferring photos & videos

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Altered filetype when transferring photos & videos

Whenever i try to import media files to my pc, file extension becomes slightly different.

Instead of .MOV, it becomes something like .MOVÂ or .MOV我

Instead of .HEIC, something like .HEIĆ or .HEIC|\ appears

It's like ...some sort of encryption?

I can delete the added character and the photo opens just fine if I do, but I take hundreds of photos every week. It's obviously time consuming to correct each individual image.

How do I fix this?

iPhone 13 mini, iOS 17

Posted on Jul 29, 2023 2:57 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 30, 2023 6:19 AM in response to well_on_excel

FWIW although I do not use iCloud Photos on the Mac or much Windows either, I quickly tried this in Windows 10 with VMware VM. On the Mac I always use Image Capture and do not import straight to Phtotos.app.

Windows File Explorer can copy images as expected from an iPhone and then they can be imported to Windows iCloud Photos (with the default settings the file suffix ".jpg" is not displayed at the end).

But when importing straight to Windows iCloud Photos (from the same iPhone > Internal Storage > DCIM) the imported filename seems to always have [1] added to the end which Photos displays as %5B1%5D (when exporting it is IMG_1736[1].JPG). I can not comment if this behavior has changed.

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Answer 2

Jul 29, 2023 10:22 AM in response to well_on_excel

> Windows Photo app

I am not familiar with Windows photo apps. Is it something related to iCloud for Windows or some 3rd party app? Have you tried to download the images with the File Explorer?

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Answer 3

Jul 29, 2023 3:24 AM in response to well_on_excel

Never heard of this issue before. More details, please. What operating system? How do you import?

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Answer 4

Jul 29, 2023 3:52 AM in response to Matti Haveri

Hello. I’m on Windows 10, import with Windows Photo app

I recently upgraded from an iPhone 8 Plus to a 13 mini. This wasn’t a problem before…same method, same PC. It only happens on my current phone

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Answer 5

Aug 1, 2023 11:04 PM in response to Matti Haveri

Sorry for the late reply! It is related to Windows, pre-installed. It’s just like the Photos one on Mac.

I tried using file explorer but same result, unfortunately

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Answer 6

Aug 1, 2023 11:14 PM in response to Matti Haveri

Ok, I think I’ll stay away from transferring to windows for now. Maybe just keep my photos exclusively on apple’s cloud.

Thanks for trying this out! It actually helped a bit

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