Like most of us, I have thousands of photos on my Windows 10 PC. I have just noticed that every single photo name has had an identical date and time added to it. For example, instead of "Me on the beach.jpg" is now reads "Me on the beach (2020_15_12 14_09_53 UTC).jpg" Each photo has the exact same date and time, which has nothing to do with when the photo was taken, added to the PC or last edited. Some recent photos (added in 2022, 2023) have a different date and time; Very recent ones (2024) do not....YET! What has caused this, and how can I stop it happening? I am starting to laboriously edit each file name, but am most worried that something will cause a new date to be added at some point. Please can anyone help?
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In Progress All my photos have new spurious date and time added to file name
- Thread starter huwhuw
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See if this will help save you some time on the re-naming job. https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/#mainscreen
The issue as to why they changed would be better served by our security expert.
@Malnutrition
The issue as to why they changed would be better served by our security expert.
@Malnutrition
Yes, they are. I just want to get rid of the superfluous dates and stop it happening again.
I've only seen that kind of mass renaming of files when a ramsonware infection has happened, and even then, it has been all personal file types; .jpg, .doc, .mp4, .txt, etc.
Would be worth the effort for @Malnutrition to give the PC a clean bill of health.
Would be worth the effort for @Malnutrition to give the PC a clean bill of health.
Please follow the instructions here. https://pchelpforum.net/t/prework-please-read-before-posting.11235/post-11788
Attach both Frst and addition.txt logs for review.
Attach both Frst and addition.txt logs for review.