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Comment by creer

4 months ago

> So how are you supposed to find anything?

They don't mean the photos can't have names. They just observe that usually in-camera photos don't have particularly useful names like IMG_4321.JPG, same as all the other IMG_4321.JPGs that your camera has and will produce if it sees enough use.

Also that storage doesn't address a blob (or photo) by its name. But by hash / digest. You are welcome to store photo metadata with the hashes and perhaps even a good name if you care for one, in a database, on web pages, or whatever you use - if that makes it easier for you to retrieve the right photo. Probably you should.

Content object storage and retrieval (cumbersome objects) is then separate from issues of remembering what is what (small data).