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Q: Where are photo file names?

I've "titled" many, many photos in iPhoto by changing the filename (e.g. "DSC_2254" --> "On vacation in Hawaii"), but there appears to be no option in Photos to show the filename. So none of my "titles" appear. Am I missing something?

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Apr 9, 2015 7:56 AM

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  • by alaz0,

    alaz0 alaz0 Nov 1, 2015 3:11 PM in response to R C-R
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    Nov 1, 2015 3:11 PM in response to R C-R

    Interesting.  In prior threads, the idea of displaying vs. copying was missed, or I missed it....  Thank you for the correction!  That does explain a few things.

     

    ALSO, I found that I was in error in Photos not sorting by Title - it does, (at least in the current Photos 1.2, El Capitan).  In the opening page of Photos, click on an Album name, View, Sort and select sorting by title.  My apologies for my frustrations.  It was not obvious to me from the Apple instructions.....

     

    Now if I can figure out how to use a photo editor of my choice, I'd be all set....  :-)

     

    - Andy

  • by R C-R,

    R C-R R C-R Nov 1, 2015 4:25 PM in response to alaz0
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    Nov 1, 2015 4:25 PM in response to alaz0

    alaz0 wrote:

    My apologies for my frustrations.  It was not obvious to me from the Apple instructions.....

    No need for apologies. There are a great many things about Photos (or for that matter, about iPhoto) that are not obvious from the documentation Apple provides.

  • by Ziatron,

    Ziatron Ziatron Nov 28, 2015 10:30 PM in response to léonie
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    Nov 28, 2015 10:30 PM in response to léonie

    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

     

    Hi leonie, 

     

    I have been holding off changing from Aperture because I had gotten advice that Photos was not capable of showing Keywords underneath the thumbnails. When I look at your post above, I get the impression that Photos is capable of showing Keywords under thumbnails.

     

    For my engineering and scientific work, I MUST be able to display Keywords under the thumbnails.  Can Photos do this ?

     

    Please straighten me out.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Nov 29, 2015 1:05 AM in response to Ziatron
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    Nov 29, 2015 1:05 AM in response to Ziatron

    Photos can show the title below the thumbnail, but not the keywords.

     

    To see the keywords below the thumbnails you could invest into PowerPhotos. It is a great companion to the Photos.app, just like iPhoto Library Manager used to be for iPhoto.  The recent version of PowerPhotos can show you your Photos Library and you can select, what you want to see below the thumbnails,  the filename, the title, the keywords. or the date.

    You can display the photos as a thumbnail grid or as list, with the metadata in column view. And the beauty is, you can browse your Photos libraries without launching Photos. You can scan for duplicates, and you can move photos between libraries.

    Only, it takes a rather long time to open a large library. I'm waiting for more than a minute for my iCloud Photo Library of 40000 photos to open in PowerPhotos. So I keep it running.

     

     

    Fat Cat Software – PowerPhotos

    The Trial version is free.

     

    For example:  The keywords as a subtitle:

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    Or the keywords in List View in PowerPhotos:

    Screen Shot 2015-11-29 at 10.00.53GMT.png

  • by Ziatron,

    Ziatron Ziatron Nov 29, 2015 1:19 PM in response to léonie
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    Nov 29, 2015 1:19 PM in response to léonie

    To see the keywords below the thumbnails you could invest into PowerPhotos.

     

    Perhaps that's an answer for me. In my engineering work, I do very little editing of my images.  I am more about organization and being able to see the keywords under each thumbnail.

     

    If I'm not interested in editing anything, wouldn't I just launch PowerPhotos to find the image I am after?  And NOT use Photos at all?

     

    As you may know, iPhoto HAD the ability to show Keywords under thumbnails for the first 10 years of its existence. Apple eliminated this capability a couple of years ago which prompted me to switch to Aperture.  Once again, I am chasing keywords under thumbnails.  "Lyn" does this, but I like to stick with Apple stuff whenever possible.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Nov 29, 2015 1:23 PM in response to Ziatron
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    Nov 29, 2015 1:23 PM in response to Ziatron

    wouldn't I just launch PowerPhotos to find the image I am after?  And NOT use Photos at all?

    PowerPhotos is a companion to Photos.  You use Photos to create the library, create albums, assign keyword, titles, captions.

    Once that is done, you can use PowerPhotos to manage and browse the libraries and move photos between libraries.

  • by Bunny Ivy,

    Bunny Ivy Bunny Ivy Dec 8, 2015 4:45 PM in response to tdavenport
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    Dec 8, 2015 4:45 PM in response to tdavenport

    I have the same problem.  All the titles for my pictures in iPhoto, after migrating over to Photo, are now missing and are now "untitled".  And I can't even sort my pictures by filename (or am I missing something? someone help! )

     

    Please post if you have any kind of solution.  Can I revert back to iPhoto on my mac? I am a new user to Mac so any help is appreciated!  Thank you.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Dec 9, 2015 5:03 AM in response to thedatadude
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    Dec 9, 2015 5:03 AM in response to thedatadude
    Can I revert back to iPhoto on my mac? I am a new user to Mac so any help is appreciated!  Thank you.

    It depends on the iPhoto version you have installed.  If you have iPhoto 9.6.1 installed, drag the iPhoto icon from the Applications folder back to the Dock. Double-click it to open your iPhoto Library in iPhoto.

    But if you did not not update to iPhoto 9.6.1 before the migration it may be too late, because Apple stopped selling iPhoto.

    See Barney's User Tip:

    Can't Update iPhoto because it is not available in the App Store

  • by NMJones,

    NMJones NMJones Jan 18, 2016 4:41 PM in response to thedatadude
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    Jan 18, 2016 4:41 PM in response to thedatadude

    I'm an Aperture user and I've been struggling with this as well and finally found a web page that gave me the solution.  In Aperture, you basically need to do a Batch Change to copy the Version Name to the Title field. Photos for Mac only recognizes Titles.  In Aperture, Title is an obscure little used field. Running an Apple Script I found on the attached webpage causes the Version Name you currently have to appear in the Title field in the Info panel in Aperture.  When that is done and you migrate to Photos, and voila, the title will appear in Photos.  I have never run an Apple Script before and I was initially reluctant to go down that path, but it was surprisingly easy if you follow the instructions on the web page.  Here's the web page to cut and paste into your browser:

     

    https://photoapps.expert/tips/2014/8/1/applescript-copy-aperture-version-name-ti tle-field#.Vp15GhaJXZE

  • by nilesk,

    nilesk nilesk Feb 17, 2016 8:33 AM in response to NMJones
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    Feb 17, 2016 8:33 AM in response to NMJones

    I'm hoping this subject fits in here: when scrolling through "All Photos" some of my photos display file names (and I don't mean titles) and some don't, even though they show up in the info panel. What's going on? Also when scrolling through "All Photos" the month & year would show up, a feature in iphoto that seems to have disappeared. I must say Photos has taken 0 steps forward and 3 steps backwards with this one.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Feb 17, 2016 8:46 AM in response to nilesk
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    Feb 17, 2016 8:46 AM in response to nilesk

    nilesk wrote:

     

    I'm hoping this subject fits in here: when scrolling through "All Photos" some of my photos display file names (and I don't mean titles) and some don't, even though they show up in the info panel. What's going on? Also when scrolling through "All Photos" the month & year would show up, a feature in iphoto that seems to have disappeared. I must say Photos has taken 0 steps forward and 3 steps backwards with this one.

    You are not seeing file names in all photos as that is not an option - you are seeing titles and if there is a file name in the title it is because some time you have put the file name into the title - the only place you can see file names in Photos is in the info window - in all photos you can only see the title - and file names have no value  anyway since you never use them with photos

     

    LN

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Feb 17, 2016 8:54 AM in response to nilesk
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    Feb 17, 2016 8:54 AM in response to nilesk

    Use this Applescript  from the  Photos for Mac User Tips  to write the file names of selected images to the title field for those images: Photos for Mac: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename.

     

    You can download a compiled version of the Applescript as an application from this tutorial;  P01 - Applescripts from Photos’ User Tips Compiled as Applications

     

    OTsig.png

  • by GSW1,

    GSW1 GSW1 Mar 3, 2016 6:28 AM in response to Washington Apples
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    Mar 3, 2016 6:28 AM in response to Washington Apples

    I have exactly the same issue as Washington Apples... I have all the view metadata selections clicked on and yet Title shows up "untitled". I haven't even titled my photo's I have left them with the original file info from the photo. And as per WA's issue none of these file names have been imported into Photo's. Ugly bug if indeed that's what it is... Big error...

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Mar 3, 2016 7:10 AM in response to GSW1
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    Mar 3, 2016 7:10 AM in response to GSW1
    I haven't even titled my photo's I have left them with the original file info from the photo.

    Photos does not use the filename as the title by default.  It will show any title that you add manually. You can see the filenames in the Info panel.  It was Apple's design decision treat the filename differently from a user added title.

  • by LoukasG,

    LoukasG LoukasG Mar 3, 2016 8:11 AM in response to léonie
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    Mar 3, 2016 8:11 AM in response to léonie

    Hi Léonie,

     

    Is it possible to batch change the file names of pictures in Photos to their title?

     

    Thanks

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