[BNM] Recovering previous file names

[Chris Billett]

Sweet, yep, that¹s the kind of thing I was hoping for. Was actually looking
over XMP metadata earlier, and unfortunatelydidn¹t find anything. I don¹t
really want the old versions of the file, I just renamed some files for a
website, and the artist it was for lost the originals. She wants to know
what she named them, and I have renamed the all 1, 2, 3.jpg etc. No need to
change files to their original state, just try and find out what their
previous file names were so I can help her out.

Will maybe look through the meta data manually, if nothing there, I guess
there¹s no hope.

Cheers Alex!
CB

On 2/9/07 17:31, "Alex Farran" <alex at alexfarran.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:05:49 +0100, Chris Billett <chris at chrisbillett.net>
> said:
> 
>> > Just I seem to remember people finding out how files had been
>> > photoshoped etc. before, and previously saved from applications/file
>> > names and the like being available for files through a GUI... maybe
>> > I dreamt it.
> 
> Perhaps you're thinking of something like Word's revision tracking.
> You can find out a lot about previous versions of a file by looking at
> the metadata.  I googled for Photoshop metadata and it appears to do
> something similar with the XMP metadata format.
> 
> There's no general solution for recovering old versions of files
> beyond the obvious of using backups and version control, but some
> file types may store enough metadata to recover some information.
> 
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