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Q: How do I recover photo names?

When I drop my photos into their Events, I title (name) the photos.  I start their names with a YYYY/DD/MM format (so they automatically sort by date).  As I am dealing with a lot of old photos (scans, etc.), I do not want to use the date the photos were added to Photos, but want the pictures to sort according to their naming scheme.  This worked GREAT in iPhoto, and I had thousands of photos named (and auto-sorted) in this way. 

 

When I upgraded Photos, most photos in my Events lost their titles (though file names remained the same).  Everything is out of order now, and the photo names are only accessible if I seek-out the file names for each one.  Individually.  Thousands of them.

 

To further complicate this, not all of the Events suffered this change - only some of them!  A few of the Events still show the photo names as I had originally entered them (in iPhoto).

 

How do I recover the names/titles of the photos and make them display in Photos the way they did in iPhoto?

 

Thanks for your help.

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Apr 27, 2015 9:46 AM

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