I think I may have got to btm of these iPhone file id where incoming saves over-write previous saves.

It is not a problem with Windows 7 which I am told allows you to change the file name at the Windows prompt --- whereas XP which I use does not.

There is however another aspect which two-timing husbands may care to consider --- and even their suspicious wives. If one hovers the mouse arrow on the foto's filename it will display what equipment took the foto (e.g. 3GS) and will date/time stamp the occasion. However, if one over-writes that earlier foto with a later one (taken somewhere else perhaps) then the later foto will carry the earlier one's time/date stamp. Could this be some sort of matrimonial ouch?

As for my USA friend who confesses to using an iPhone set to defaults he avers it is all an equipment fault my end, that he has no intention of changing his iPhone default file id's just to suit me. It would mean, he grumbles, that he would have to change all the file id's in whatever folder he has saved them to. My response has been to place his e-mail address in my blacklist. But who then is the loser?

In reply to a post by Littleseen:

It is not a problem with Windows 7 which I am told allows you to change the file name at the Windows prompt --- whereas XP which I use does not.

Oh yes, XP does! Instead of doing Save Attachments with the email unopened, open the email and right click on the photo Attachment and do Save As. Then just change the filename at the bottom of the Save Attachment As dialogue.

EDIT: I doubt it is any different with the Win 7 OS itself; it may just be the difference between the email clients.

Edited by XRaySpeX (Tue 24-Jan-12 15:29:49)