when I enter a location for a picture, Photos changes it to a different location

Keith, may I ask you a question? I am also relying heavily on HoudahGeo for entering the metadata before importing photos to Photos. But I am still having HoudahGeo 5. It keeps nagging me to upgrade to version 6. Is the upgrade worth the money? I tested the free trial, but the new features cannot be tested fully. As version 5 is still working well, I would prefer to wait for the Big Sur Release before deciding to upgrade or not.

I have kept upgraded, but haven't really noticed any functional improvements. It always just works.

I have asked them to add the "imports" view from Photos, if available, since that is usually the easiest way to get at the images you recently imported. But they haven't yet taken my suggestion.

TL; DR;

I think you are fine waiting.

Dear Geo Taggers & Photo Archivers,

Is there an impact / more positive effect, if me mention the Feedback ID in each others Feedback Tickets? I don't know, if this is against Apple's policies, but it might be worth a try. Mine is still showing "Similar Reports: None / Resolution: Open".

Thanks,

Joachim

masuurikas wrote:

The problem still exists with Big Sur.

It is independent of the system version - it is broken since October in all versions of Photos where I can test it, on Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur. It must have been broken in a central location on Apple's servers.

Hi - You can export geotags, keywords, descriptions and face labels, by checking "export IPTC as XMP" in the export unmodified originals box.

This creates an XMP sidecar file that most software will recognise when importing. The xmp file must be kept in the same folder as the image file.

In the meantime, I tried to open a couple of Fotos from my Photos library with HoudahGeo as a workaround. In the libraries panel, Photos show up, but when I try to expand this library and view the folder / pictures in the library, nothing happens. I waited for a couple of minutes, but still, nothing showing up. Could this be because I have to many (~130'000) photos in my library? Or because all photos in the library are in folders?

Hi, has any of you tried to call Apple Support https://getsupport.apple.com ?

This was in my plans, but I've already spent 1h45 on the phone with them today for another issue... to no avail, and I'm afraid my patience with Apple Support may have been depleted for another 6 months. Still, maybe worth a try wouldn't you think?

Hello,

I wrote myself an AppleScript app that works similar to the very nice script published here, but additionally writes the location information to the originals of the photos.

This is done by reading the path to the selected photos from the Photos app database of the currently used Photos library, which is usually determined automatically.

If there are several photo libraries, it can happen in a few cases that the currently used Photos library cannot be determined and must be selected manually.

Since I'm not an "identified developer", the app has to be started with a right click on the first start and depending on macOS used additionally selecting it in the Finder, which is explained in the ReadMe.

Maybe this is something for you

kind regards

Sedna

PhotosSetCoordinates

Hi xsedna

Thanks for your script. I tried it today and read the Readme too but I was unable to enter the location in the following format: 46.25406, 7.84488

It accepts the format and tries to process it, but the popup says that it was not successful. Do you have any idea why? It's a vidoe.

Hello

and thanks for the feedback!

By pop-up do you mean the notification that appears after editing? The notification only shows if the GPS data could be written to the originals. The GPS data set in the Photos app can be checked in the Info window.

GPS data can only be written to a few video formats... Apple-Quicktime Movie ("MOV") and MPEG-4 ("mp4").... and theoretically also to the M4V format.With the first two it works, but for m4v videos I have no solution at the moment.

Kind regards

Sedna

Today I contacted the guys from 9to5Mac and they immediately reacted: https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/23/apple-photos-bug-prevents-precise-latitude-and-longitude-geotagging-of-images/

let’s hope for a fix, now as Apple might have a bit more attention on this...

bR Joachim

I can enter keywords, as long as I do not ry to do it in the recents or Imports album, right after importing. In the recents or Import the focus is immediately moving away from the Info and I am getting a lot of beeping I am adding any ne photos to an album and work from this album, then it is easier.