Keep original filename

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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected output is something like 
2647_70289912782_720747782_2321918_636668_n.jpg or n10602089_34510233_2161.jpg

What shows instead is a renamed number sequence.

Please provide any additional information below.

In order to more easily distinguish duplicates, it would be better if it kept 
the original filename. Thanks for all of your hard work.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Supreme1...@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2010 at 7:59

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The filenames Photograbber creates are determined by the Photo's unique ID 
(from the Facebook API) to avoid duplicates.  It's not clear whether the 
filenames for the photos as they appear on the actual Facebook website could 
ever change.  I figure that the API's identifier is less likely to change 
compared to the filename returned on the website.

I can see where it would be annoying if you have manually downloaded pictures 
along with Photograbber automated download pictures - but there are some things 
to consider before making a change:

1) review the Facebook API to ensure that the photo's filename never changes 
(if it could change than that filename should not be used)
2) in order to keep Photograbber backwards compatible I would have to add this 
on as an option for the user to specify (which would add clutter to the UI)

Original comment by tommy.mu...@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2010 at 7:20

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I also strongly recommend this feature be implemented. I've archived facebook 
photos for several years now and having the original filename would be 
immensely useful identifying duplicates and replacing untagged photos with the 
newly tagged photos. While you potentially could just re-archive with the 
program and go along with its filenaming scheme, it would be difficult to 
discern which photos which were archived before but are no longer online. And I 
think this centers on the principle of archiving photos is to preserve them 
since they may one day be deleted or unavailable. Also, the filename also 
offers a way to manually relocate the original link for the photo (if it hasn't 
been removed) as well as the original uploader's facebook ID.

As for the photo filenames, I'm very confident they don't change. Photos that 
have been uploaded even as far as five years ago still have the same filename. 
I've never encountered an instance where photo filenames have changed. 

Original comment by closei...@gmail.com on 2 Nov 2010 at 12:31

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r98 addresses this issue and keeps the facebook cdn filename for files.  This 
'breaks' compatibility with data saved by a previous version of photograbber in 
that duplicate files will be created, however the new version of the file may 
be a higher resolution (see r96).  Directions/explanation of this may be needed 
for existing users that upgrade.

Original comment by to...@ourbunny.com on 2 May 2012 at 2:29

• Changed state: Accepted

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fix included in r99 binary, now available for download

Original comment by to...@ourbunny.com on 4 Jun 2012 at 1:38

• Changed state: Done