If this sounds like your week
Metadata-aware renaming fails silently on inconsistent archives.
Screenshots, exports, and phone dumps do not share identical EXIF profiles. bulk rename photos by camera model exif.
Where tooling usually breaks
Treat metadata tokens as conditional—not magical.
Preview catches missing fields before they corrupt thousands of names.
Metadata rename mindset
DateTimeOriginal vs filesystem mtime → different truths Preview cohort → validate missing fields Reforge → token rules + local execution