Q: Where are photo file names?

R-C-R,

You make good points.

However I would offer the following.

There is a middle ground between the novice photographer and the professional.  In my own case, I like the editing and complete "cloud based" access to my library from multiple computers.

However, with 33,000 photos, I need better tools to simply organize and access  my photos in ways that fit my work flow.  Sorting, list views, and some of the other things I used regularly in Aperture would be extremely helpful.

Certainly Photos is free. But I was happy to pay $199 for Aperture to obtain much greater flexibility on managing my photos.

Anyway, the iCloud base is the real draw for me and I am willing to live with the shortcomings of managing my library for the present. I just hope and assume that additional features find their way into Photos over time.

Rex - I feel exactly the same way. I'm definitely missing some tools from Aperture but the advantages/fun of having my 52K photo library on two Macs, an iPad and an iPhone is making me very happy.  I used to really struggle with how photos came into Aperture from my iPhone and now other than a slightly longer wait I'm not doing the duplicate dance.  The tools are more powerful than most people realize but definitely limited.

One oddity I'm noticing on my devices with optimized images, I take a photo with my iPhone and then want to post it immediately, but iCloud Photo Library has already moved it up to the cloud so I have to wait for it to come back. Have you seen that?

Allison,

Have not observed that. 

Not saying its not there, just have never run into it.

Tell Apple your needs - https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

Maybe they will upgrade Photos enough or even come out with a professional product like Aperture with enough feedback

For now the choices are to use Aperture as it is with no planed future updates or use Photos as it is (with many short comings compared to Aperture - but improvements coming) - http://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview/?cid=wwa-us-kwg-mac-com

LN

hmmm...  How about this one? When I take a picture with my iPhone there's a very long lag before I can access the photo right from the camera app.

Allison Sheridan wrote:

 

hmmm...  How about this one? When I take a picture with my iPhone there's a very long lag before I can access the photo right from the camera app.

Since this does not involve Photos for the Mac I suggest you ask in the forum for your iPhone

LN

Maybe the right place would be in a discussion of iCloud Photo Library?  It's not really a phone issue, it's more to do with the fact that photos are stored in the cloud. I'll be cool though!

?  It's not really a phone issue, it's more to do with the fact that photos are stored in the cloud. I'll be cool though!

iCloud cannot be causing this, unless you are connected to Wi-Fi while shooting the photos.  Photos will only upload to iCloud  when connected to Wi-Fi, and the Camera app is closed. You should be able to apply filters in the Camera.app immediately.  But ask in the iPhone forum.

Leonie - i am probably missing something obvious here, but i created your Service. It shows up in system preferences, but i cannot get it to appear in Photos. says no relevant services.

anything to do?

Is the service set to "receive no input" in "Photos.app"?  In the title bar of the service?  And have you selected the photos?

If the service does not appear,you can always launch it directly from Automator.

Or use one of the script versions published on the Photos for Mac User Tips page.

For example:  Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension

This user tip has a second version to be run as Apple Script. It is useful, if the Photos library s syncing with iCloud.

FWIW I prefer to use apps so I have Automator or Applescript create an application which I put in the Scripts folder that is accessible from the menu bar.

The Script Folder button in the menu bar is activated in the AppleScript Editor's General preference pane:

Just food for thought.

I took your Script, as shown, and dragged it into Automator. In Automator I choose Service as the selected option. At the top of automator, I selected NO Input and Photos as the application. I then saved the Service.  When I opened Photos, I selected 4 Photos that were untitled and ran the Service. Nothing happened. I unselected the photos, and ran the Service. As I understand the code, I should have gotten a warning message telling to select some photos. I got no such warning. What am I doing wrong? Do I have to change the code you provided in some way?

As written it should work in Script Editor. I think I had to make some minor changes to make it work in Automator but offhand I don't recall what they were. I'm not at the Mac just now so I cannot check. Worse, as I started adding in all of my photos the script became erratic and now won't even work with a single file. I've a feeling more RAM might help but there is possibly a better way to manage the selection of objects.

tt2

Since I installed Yosemite, I hate my Mac.

Why's that?  Yosemite is the fastest system I've had on my iMac.  It runs beautifully.