Spencer

Thanks to TomH, Renee, alanmon and you, Vyger.

So File History in Win 10 is the Verdammt Culprit.

I'm quite familiar with File History and use it frequently -- and it puts beards on my RM7 Image Files.

Naughty...

I'll deal with it...

Cutting Off The Beards.

Posted Today, 11:42 AM

Windows 10?

Very True...

The Threads Often Just Trail Off To Oblivion...As Did This One...

However...

One plausible "solution" I've discovered is laborious -- but works.

For some verdampt, unfathomed reason, it seems that RM7 likes to change the names of my media files.

Let's say I name an image file, a portrait of Abraham Lincoln,  AbeLincoln2 and it's designated as a .jpg file.

RM7 then wants to rename the image file as AbeLincoln2(2018_08_17 05_06_27 UTC).jpg.  Why, I do not know.

Now, if I trim the "beard" off the AbeLincoln2 file -- all that (2018_08_17 05_06_27 UTC).jpg. rubbish -- Media Gallery can find it and the image displays correctly without the verdampt and feared Red X.

So, if I trim the beards on all 4,567 image files I had in RM7 will they just be added again?

And, equally important, is there a quicker way?

Thanks, Jerry.  That is a remarkably candid, thoughtful and informative post.  I'm going to think about your points for a while -- let them marinate -- and then reply further.

Spencer

I haven't proposed an algorithm to calculate CLOSENESS.

DSH