Sharing photos with others to include the titles and sorting order

I've spent many hours titling and dating the family photos, which I now want to share with distant family members. I can't find a method to do this. Shared Albums loses the titles; so does transferring to Google photos. I don't want to do Family Sharing with many people I've never met. I even resorted to transferring to a flash drive to mail to them, but they also lose their titles. iCloud Drive did not seem to work either.


Are the titles I apply to photos on my Mac only available to myself, on my Mac? I've contacted Apple Support, who weren't helpful. They suggested sending the photos via flash drive!


Rob




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Posted on Dec 27, 2020 10:26 AM

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Posted on Dec 27, 2020 11:53 AM

You are brilliant! I exported (with titles) to a folder I created on the Desktop. I then dragged that folder over to the flash drive in Finder. When I go to the flash drive, the photos all have their titles and are in order! Yay! Thanks!


I'll explore Flickr for an electronic means of doing this, but at least I can get this going.

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Dec 27, 2020 11:53 AM in response to Yer_Man

You are brilliant! I exported (with titles) to a folder I created on the Desktop. I then dragged that folder over to the flash drive in Finder. When I go to the flash drive, the photos all have their titles and are in order! Yay! Thanks!


I'll explore Flickr for an electronic means of doing this, but at least I can get this going.

Dec 27, 2020 10:39 AM in response to RLehman1952

Which system version do you have installed?

On macOS 11 Big Sur the description will be shared, when you share a photo in a shared album, all the filename, but not the title.

On earlier systems you can share some information with the photos in a shared album, if you share each photo individually, not all at once, exactly in the order you want to share the photos, and then add a comment to a photo, when you share it.

The comments will be displayed on the webpage with the shared photos. But you have to add the comments, immediately, when you share the photos. adding comments later may change the sort order of the photos on the webpage of the shared album.



Dec 27, 2020 10:43 AM in response to Yer_Man

Terence,


Thanks for quick reply! I tried export, and yes, it asks if I want titles included. But where would you export them to, so they'd be accessible to others? I tried email and messages - nope. I thought to export to the flash drive, but couldn't access that from the dropdown menu.


And yes, I figured the sorting can be done by the recipient. Each photo already starts with the year of the photo, so they are already "numbered" for sorting by that person.

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