I have a failed iPhone backup from which I would like to recover my photos and videos. It is about 12GB. Because of the way iTunes handles backups, none of the files have any file extensions.
I would like to use exiftool to assign a new filename to each file, including the file extension. I tried doing something like listed in the section "Renaming and/or Moving Files" replacing %%e with .jpg, but it did not open any of the files saying that there were no images. I am guessing that is because none of the images in the backup directory have extensions.
Is there a way to use exiftool to do what I want? Ideally I would like to input a directory and have exiftool identify both the movie files (should be m4v?) and the images (png and jpg) and move them to a new directory while giving them an appropriate extension based on the exif information. The other files (mostly sqllite) would be ignored.
Is this possible? Or will I need to give extensions to everything first?