Quick question, when I export my images and json file from a project on roboflow, I notice that the files have been renamed with a string of letters/numbers added to the end of the original file name. Are these parts of the file names important or do they contain any important information my AI model might need for training?
Project Type: Segmentation
Operating System & Browser: Windows 11
Hi Daniela. This is Tony, from Roboflow.
files have been renamed with a string of letters/numbers added to the end of the original file name
Correct!
When you upload a file to Roboflow we add some additional metadata to it.
When you download it, the downloaded files have that format with roboflow’s additional metadata
Are these parts of the file names important or do they contain any important information my AI model might need for training?
They don’t contain any information that is important for training.
It’s important though that the “inner consistency” of the downloaded dataset is kept. For example, if you download a dataset in YOLOv12 format, you might get an image named
pineapple_jpg.rf.cb1d6272cac77254520444fdc2d17.jpg
and if that image has annotations, there will be also another file called
pineapple_jpg.rf.cb1d6272cac77254520444fdc2d17.txt
with the image annotations. And that is how the tools usually know that those annotations belong to that image.
Other than that, cb1d6272cac77254520444fdc2d17 carries no information that is important for training or anything like that.
Hope this helps!
This does help, thank you!
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