Photos not Importing Metadata

Try editing the images with Photoshop from inside the library with this menu in the Edit mode:

and next

Photoshop won't be in the menu originally so you'll have to scroll down to the bottom and select other. Then navigate to your Photoshop app and select it. When you save be sure to save as the same format as the original. If you edit a jpeg and end up with layers and a .psd extension Photos won't know that you've edited it.

I tried your process for adding metadata to a file but with PSE 2020. I got this in PSE:

and this upon importing into Photos:

It works for me.

What happens when you put both groups in the same folder and import them into the library? The only reason the files show the file name is that there is no title in the file's IPTD Title field.

garytoriello wrote:

I recently imported 2 batches of photos.

1 - Both batches had their metadata edited in an identical manner.

2 - Both batches were imported into PHOTOS in an identical manner.

The first batch displayed the metadata title correctly in the Album in Photos.

The second batch did not.

1 - how was the metadata edited, i.e what app and how was the file saved before importing?

2 - how were the two batches imported?

garytoriello wrote:

I recently imported 2 batches of photos.

Both batches had their metadata edited in an identical manner.

Both batches were imported into PHOTOS in an identical manner.

The first batch displayed the metadata title correctly in the Album in Photos.

The second batch did not.

What has changed in Photoshop? Are you using the same Photoshop version as before? What is the file format of the photos? Are both JPEGs? And have the JPEGS been created in the same way?

Photos 5 on Catalina seems to be scanned photos differently from photos taken with a digital camera. When I import photos created by a scanner, I am seeing less metadata than for photos taken with a camera.

However the other half of the images were imported incorrectly, ignored the metadata, and the FILENAME shows in the slide view.

This seems like positive proof of a bug to me.

That is an elaborate test and a surprising result. Did you do this test in a new Photos Library? Or have the photos been imported previously without added metadata and not yet deleted completely from the library?

When we import the same photo twice, first without some metadata tags, then again with the added metadata, Photos will just use the old original image file without the metadata. The two imported versions will share the original file, and the metadata will still be missing. When I try to test an issue with metadata, I am always testing in a new, empty library, to ensure, that no old original of the same file is present.

What happens, when you export one of the originals with "File > Export > Export unmodified original"? Are the metadata fields, that you added, still embedded in the exported original?

I forgot to add the most important part: add the metadata in Photos, i.e. keywords, descriptions, etc.

If you need the jpeg outside of Photos with the metadata included use this export option:



What fields are available under the IPTC section:

Is there a Title field?

Did you do the same type of editing on all of the files? Or were the "bad" files edited differently from the others? A stretch I know but got to look into every possibility.

Forgive me for butting in. Are these photos all taken with the same camera and the same settings on the camera?