How do I get my phone to recognize a file as a photo?

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how do i get my phone to recognize a file as a photo?

I recovered a thousand+ photos that mysteriously disappeared from my gallery, TTL! Problem now is my phone doesn't recognize them unless I rename them by adding jpg, how can I do that in a group instead of individually?
 

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Re: how do i get my phone to recognize a file as a photo?

I recovered a thousand+ photos that mysteriously disappeared from my gallery, TTL! Problem now is my phone doesn't recognize them unless I rename them by adding jpg, how can I do that in a group instead of individually?

I'm not sure that there is a way to batch rename the files on the device. How does a pc read the files? Perhaps it'll be easier to save on the pc then transfer back to the phone as jpg files.
 

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Re: how do i get my phone to recognize a file as a photo?

I thought about that but I don't know how to exclusively transfer those files, considering every time I've transferred in the past it automatically just does photos & videos.
 

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I thought about that but I don't know how to exclusively transfer those files, considering every time I've transferred in the past it automatically just does photos & videos.
Can you mount the device and see the contents of the SD card? That's where you'll be able to drag and drop to the computer.
 

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Re: how do i get my phone to recognize a file as a photo?

And if you drag them all to one folder, going to a command prompt in that folder and typing

ren * *.jpg

would rename them all.

Running a terminal app on the phone, going to the folder the files are in and typing

mv * *.jpg

should also work. (mv is the Linux rename and/or move command.)
 

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