Filenames and titles missing in All Photos view in Photos after Catalina update!

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Filenames and titles missing in All Photos view in Photos after Catalina update!

When I'm in All Photos view in Photos, I can no longer see the titles or filenames (of untitled photos) in All Photos view. I CAN see titles/filenames in virtual folders and Imports views and also when I do a search.

I've already tried turning on "Titles" under View>Metadata. Another user has sent me a screenshot to show that he CAN see titles/filenames in All Photos view, but nothing I've tried has solved this for me. We're both using the most updated version of Catalina! This is extremely frustrating. It is a result of my update to Catalina, and I have done the latest update on top of that! I'm at 10.15 now.

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Posted on Oct 17, 2019 1:20 PM

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léonie

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Oct 19, 2019 1:22 AM in response to Old Toad

And the Filter is also very reliable to search for our favorite keywords from the Quick Group or media kind or combinations of them. The Filter works in any album to filter temporarily the contents.

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Old Toad

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Oct 17, 2019 4:17 PM in response to jeffsyrop

That's a feature that apparently has been left out of the new Photos. Tell Apple what missing features you'd like restored or new features added in Photos via Feedback - Photos - Apple.

A workaround can be had by creating a smart album with the following criteria:

That will have the titles or file names (if there is no title available) just below the thumbnail.

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jeffsyrop Author

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Oct 17, 2019 7:53 PM in response to Old Toad

That's really a good and even elegant workaround. I really appreciate it! and appreciate how quickly you solved it. I'm not going to mark it "Solved" yet, though, because another very experienced Apple Discussions guru showed me a screenshot of his Photos "All Photos" view, and the titles/filenames were there. So I think that because I messed with the options under View>Metadata right after installing Catalina, I may have triggered some kind of bug that made View>Metadata>[turn on]Titles no longer work. If you go here and skim our conversation, this will all make sense to you.

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Old Toad

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Oct 18, 2019 10:12 AM in response to jeffsyrop

The Photos app that comes with the latest Catalina Beat version does have the title field under the thumbnails in the All Photos and Photos view. It'll hopefully be incliufed in the next public upgrade to Catalina.

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léonie

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Oct 18, 2019 10:26 AM in response to jeffsyrop

It is apparently a bug that should be fixed soon. It is not right, that we can enable the titles to show in View > Metadata, but they do not show. Either the setting is buggy or the the missing titles.

The All Photos View has more problems. The "Showing" filters are also currently ignored in All Photos, which makes it clumsy to work with All Photos.

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jeffsyrop Author

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Oct 18, 2019 3:08 PM in response to léonie

You are so right. They have really broken Photos! Try searching for pictures that you've searched for in the past, before Catalina, and see how difficult it is now to find anything. It's beyond me how they could break this app in so many ways. It's not as if they were making a whole new app. I'm getting ready to export all 50,000 of my pictures and start managing them in folders. With the great functionality of searching in Finder, you can find a needle in a haystack in a matter of seconds, providing you are smart about setting up your folder structure for your photos, e.g., year/place/event; year/family/event, etc.

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jeffsyrop Author

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Oct 18, 2019 4:15 PM in response to Old Toad

I just did your workaround and it's GREAT. I wasn't sure it would get every file, but it did! I think I'm set now: I can see titles, filenames (if there's no title), and I can add or edit titles. Now if only Apple will fix the search function, which was already bad, but which they have now seriously broken!!

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