Q: Updated to photos now all titles in iPhoto no longer there and why Can I not title each photo under new system to allow a trawl th ... more
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May 17, 2015 11:21 AMby léonie,I Updated to Yosemite 10 10 3. Now in Photos all my iPhotos have lost their titles.
Titles are visible in the Info panel for each photo, and you can enable them to show below the thumbnails:
Go to the "View" menu > Metadata, then enable all options you want to show.
But Photos will only show tites that have been added as titles. It does not use the filename as the default title. If your titles in iPhoto have been the filenames, copy and paste them from the filename (in the Info panel) to the title filed.
We posted a few Apple Scriptes in the user tip section to make batch changes possible, see this page: User Tips (10)
Photos for Mac: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename
2 1 262 May 17, 2015 7:16 PM Photos for Mac: Batch Change Title to Capture Date-Description-Padded Sequential Number
2 0 118 May 14, 2015 8:06 PM Photos for Mac - Batch Change Title to Text w/Padded Sequential No.
2 0 35 May 14, 2015 8:10 AM Notes on Migrating an iPhoto Library from iPhoto to Photos for Mac
2 0 154 May 9, 2015 9:20 AM 2 0 268 May 6, 2015 9:44 AM 2 7 480 May 5, 2015 1:15 PM Batch Changes in Photos for Mac: Change the titles to a Given String
1 3 377 May 2, 2015 7:23 PM Photos for Mac: Batch Changing the Title to the Capture Date
1 0 100 April 28, 2015 10:50 PM Photos for Mac: Batch Change the Date and Time to a Fixed Date
1 0 189 April 21, 2015 10:18 AM 1 0 131 April 15, 2015 11:53 AM -
May 18, 2015 12:10 AMby Emjayel73,Well, I haven't gone through all these but just looking at them they are frighteningly complex when previously there was a simple straightforward system!
I really do not understand why Apple change almost for the sake of it!! If a change was really required surely a tried and tested function within the old system could be incorporated.
emjayel
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May 18, 2015 1:24 AMby léonie,Photos is not just an update. It is a complete new application, written from scratch, and using all the new frameworks in Yosemite to make image processing and graphics more efficient. It will take some time to add more features to it and to develop the previous features from iPhoto so they will integrate well with the new application. Yosemite 10.10.3 changed dramatically under the hood.
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May 21, 2015 1:31 AMby Emjayel73,Excuse me for using the wrong term!
I accept what you say and the fact that Apple need to continually progress but is it really necessary or a good reason for losing a good facility and system on a collection of photographs accumulated over the past couple of years. For a "non techie" like me this is far from helpful.
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May 21, 2015 2:00 AMby R C-R,Emjayel73 wrote:
I really do not understand why Apple change almost for the sake of it!! If a change was really required surely a tried and tested function within the old system could be incorporated.
It isn't just a change for the sake of change. Titles are one small part of a standardized system of metadata created by IPTC, widely used throughout the world to make using & sharing media easier & more capable. Filenames are metadata too, but they are part of the file system, not part of the files themselves, & subject to different limitations depending on the file system & OS in use. IPTC metadata is "portable" across all file systems & OS's; titles are not.
iPhoto displays filenames (less the file extension) below thumbnails that don't have any title metadata embedded in the file itself. While that is convenient for some purposes, it obscures the very important difference between filenames & titles. Photos doesn't do that.
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May 21, 2015 2:05 AMby léonie,Please send feedback to Apple, which features you would want to be included in the new application. The feedback form is here:
Photos is just version 1.0. It is the first release, and it is far from being a fully developed and mature application. There is no reason to stop using iPhoto for the time being, if you have a well designed iPhoto Library and want the power of iPhoto. Just make sure you update to iPhoto version 9.6.1, the compatibility update for Yosemite 10.10.3.
If you missed the update, see
Get iPhoto 9.6.1 if you didn't update before OS... | Apple Support Communities
