Right now if I show all of the photos in an album it shows the file name. How can I get it to also show the date/time the photos were taken. I know I can do cmd-I to show the date/time of an individual photo, but I want to see the date/time of all the photos where the file name appears.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.6
The Thumbnail view can show the title, and in the absence of any title, it shows the file name. So the solution is to put the date and any other information you want in the title field. You can do this manually, or there are some user generated scripts available to do some of this as a batch operation.
For me, to put the date in the title, I use Photos Workbench ($30). It gives choices like this:
You have many choices, including added text like above, for the title. Here is a menu showing some of the choices:
It also has a find and replace for titles, so I can fix all the mistakes I make.
The program is very intuitive-- I've used it for a long time.
I second OT's suggestion of PowerPhotos. Even the free trial version allows us to use the list view to see the metadata of our photos as a table.
And we can easily show the dates below the thumbnails as a subtitle:
The most recent version allows us to open more than one window, so we can even compare the albums.
Mike Lipay wrote: but I don’t want to change the title
The point was that it's the Title that is shown under the thumbnail. It's almost the definition of a Title. If you want the date to show under the thumbnail, then the date must be in the Title. With Photos Workbench, you can have the Title show both the date and the filename, even some other metadata.
As OT showed, you can get all kinds of stuff with other apps. PowerPhotos is almost a necessity for any extended use of Photos.
If you want a reference with more under a Thumbnail, you can use the Print option to make a pdf with captions and all kinds of stuff.
You can only see the date and time for one photo at a time by using the Info pane for the photo.
However, with the free version of PowerPhotos you can view the photos in a library in column form and one of the columns can be Capture Date:
Thanks, but I don’t want to change the title, the title needs to remain as I set it. I was just hoping that there was a way to show the date from the metadata, I know it’s there. I mean, you can sort by the date, so photos has access to it; you can show some of the metadata, but not the date/time (another oddity for photos).
The Thumbnail view can show the title, and in the absence of any title, it shows the file name. So the solution is to put the date and any other information you want in the title field. You can do this manually, or there are some user generated scripts available to do some of this as a batch operation.
For me, to put the date in the title, I use Photos Workbench ($30). It gives choices like this:
You have many choices, including added text like above, for the title. Here is a menu showing some of the choices:
It also has a find and replace for titles, so I can fix all the mistakes I make.
The program is very intuitive-- I've used it for a long time.
In Photos how do I shown the date/time?
