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LeoA
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Q: iphoto titles migration

my photos from iphoto import into photos without their titles... what am I doing wrong?

Mac OS X (10.7.2), Icloud

Posted on Apr 9, 2015 3:21 PM

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LeoA

Q: iphoto titles migration

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 9, 2015 3:36 PM in response to LeoA
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    Apr 9, 2015 3:36 PM in response to LeoA

    Have you enabled the titles to show in the "View" menu in Photos? "View > Metadata"?

    Screen Shot 2015-04-09 at 16.58.43CEST.png

    The titles will show in the "Moments" below the photos.You can see the original filenames in the Info panel for a photo.

    Screen Shot 2015-04-09 at 17.01.36CEST.png

    If that does not help, have a look at this discussion, there may be a bug:


    Where are photo file names?

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 9, 2015 4:55 PM in response to LeoA
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    Apr 9, 2015 4:55 PM in response to LeoA

    Nothing.  I set a bug report to Apple regarding that and here's the reply I got back from them:

     

    After reviewing your submission engineering has determined that the behavior you reported is currently functioning as designed. Thank you very much for your feedback!

     

    Your feedback was titled: Titles or File Names do not appear under thumbnails after library migration

    Please log into Feedback Assistant or the seed portal for more details.

     

    If the image file has had the title field written to by another application then the title will appear when imported into Photos.

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  • by LeoA,

    LeoA LeoA Apr 9, 2015 6:21 PM in response to Old Toad
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    Apr 9, 2015 6:21 PM in response to Old Toad

    Leonine and old toad:

    nope, not working, turned the  view/metadata/titles on and nothing happened, there is also no "moments" line below any picture.

    I saw the discussion you mentioned and i absolutely have the same problem everyone is having. I have titled thousands of pictures and I am not about to do it again... I want to see their "titles" or names below the picture, not in the info window.

    I hope someone comes up w/ a better answer than Apple's response to the bug report, that is ludicrous!

    thxs to all,

    Leo

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 10, 2015 8:51 AM in response to LeoA
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    Apr 10, 2015 8:51 AM in response to LeoA

    The only way to get your titles is to export all of the photos out of iPhoto with the following setting:

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    JPEG quality can be either High or Maximum. Maximum sometimes creates a file larger than the original.

     

    Once all of the photos have been exported to folders titled after the Event title open a new library with Photos and import those folders.  You can try with a couple of Events first as a test.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 10, 2015 8:58 AM in response to LeoA
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    Apr 10, 2015 8:58 AM in response to LeoA

    Do the titles of your photos look like filenames? Photos seems to be suppressing all titles, that include a filename extension and look like a filename:

    Here is another post:  Re: Where are photo file names?

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 10, 2015 9:26 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Apr 10, 2015 9:26 AM in response to Old Toad

    NOTE:  this method will not export the movies correctly.  You'll need to create a smart album of movies and export them separately but with Kind = Original.