Export photos with names
I have spent hours typing in the locations of photos I have taken..is it possible when uploading to PC that the names will be included? So far I am not seeing them..
iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 15
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You can preserve metadata added in Photos.app (date, location, title, caption, keyword) when exporting:
a) Export Unmodified Originals (non-lossy original pixel data) with "Export IPTC as XMP" .xmp sidecars, and then join the .xmp with "GraphicConverter 12.0.3 or later > XMP Sidecar File > Copy into JPEGs, TIFFs, PNGs, webp, HEICs, MOVs, MP4s, M4Vs". I prefer this option (*).
b) Export as .jpg (lossy), .tif, .png or .mov (lossy) and include title, keywords, caption, location, (date is always included). Works OK in images but in .mov Keywords is not correctly written and is lost in the process.
(*) Notice that macOS 10.15-13 Catalina - Ventura Photos.app exports non-standard GPS coordinates to .xmp so western and southern coordinates are erroneously put to the east and north if standards are followed when writing .xmp to the image or movie.
GraphicConverter 12.0.3 has a workaround for this for images and movie Keys:GPSCoordinates (that QuickTime Player and Photos.app read) but not yet for XMP coordinates. GC author is aware of this but I have not nagged him because those apps do not read XMP in movies. But Adobe apps do, so you might ask GC author to fix also XMP GPS tags accordingly. GC has an option to delete XMP from movies so a non-Adobe user can delete that erroneous info.
Yes, I have reported this to Apple a few times during the last few years...