Q: Photos Completely Useless to Me
The hype over Photos in the months preceding its release was that it would be a powerhouse app, the only one you would ever need, a melding of Aperture and iPhotos of all the best parts. What a load of crap!
I have tens of thousands of photos organized by File Name, which was imported in some Metadata mess, but which I can not sort my photos by, and which I cannot view as a "Title". My whole library hinges on the File Name and my ability to organize my photos my File Name.
Stars: I use Stars to signify priority of my photos, and when a priority level of a photo changes, so does the Star rating. I don't want to have to dream up Key Words in place of my stars.
In the past I have imported photos from both my iPhone and my camera, imported them into iPhoto, deleted them from my iPhone, exported them to an external folder where at my leisure I carefully edit and assign the appropriate File Name to each photo, once complete, the Photos were brought back into iPhoto ... File Names and all.
They were then sorted and organized by File Name ... do you see a pattern here?
I need to view the File Name as a title so that I know which photo is which, because on the surface many look so very similar. I then synch select photos back to iCloud and into various albums on my iPad. Had a system down with iPhoto, and apparently it is a system which does not exist on Photos, which apparently I need to use now to get my photos synched back onto my iPad and iPhone as needed.
Unless someone can show me that I'm just stupid and not figuring this out, and screwing around trying to deal with this is costing me time and money I don't have ... this new Photos app is completely useless to me and Apple ought to consider trashing this thing, bring back iPhotos on the Mac and convert iOS to iPhotos on iPhone and iPad.
There ... I've said it. I've said what everyone else is thinking.
File Names people ... It's as simple as File Names as Titles
Posted on Apr 24, 2015 3:11 PM


