I am looking for a way to automatically copy the file name of multiple photos to the Title field for a large number of photos. Is there a commercial utility or other way to do this? I would rather not copy and paste for 1000’s of photos!
Thanks
Mac Studio, macOS 15.0
I use Photos Workbench($30) to set titles. It will certainly copy the filename there, but you get a lot more options:
Here I've added the date before the filename. It also does find and replace with titles, so I can fix my mistakes!
I use Photos Workbench($30) to set titles. It will certainly copy the filename there, but you get a lot more options:
Here I've added the date before the filename. It also does find and replace with titles, so I can fix my mistakes!
I assume that AppleScript may be the best way to achieve this, but I'm dumb as a brick and don't know how to use AppleScript. I asked ChatGPT and it suggested the following:
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tell application "Photos"
set selectedPhotos to (get selection)
repeat with eachPhoto in selectedPhotos
set photoFilename to filename of eachPhoto
set title of eachPhoto to photoFilename
end repeat
end tell
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Got an error message which I sent back to Chat GPT and it gave me another script, which also failed. Did this three times in total before I gave up. Anybody have a suggestion how to correct this script, or another method to handle this?
Fantastic! Just what I was looking for!
I downloaded the trial, tried it a couple times (worked perfectly), then purchased. Well worth it!
You could probably tell I was desperate since I was consulting ChatGPT
Thanks!
There was a time when I made money programming. Now I'd rather take advantage of the pros…
Batch copy filename to Title field? (In Mac Photos app)
