Photo descriptions not showing on Facebook

I wonder, Do Apple staff check these forums?

No. As explained in the Terms of User you agreed to when you joined, this is a forum for Users to speak to other Users.

IPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback is the route to the Developers

Regards

TD

thanks.

gonna write them right now!

jyoz, since the issue being discussed in this thread is in fact a problem with iPhoto, not a mere "it would be nice if" type feature request, writing "Feedback" to Apple would most likely fall on deaf ears. Instead, you should write to Apple via their Bug Reporter. All you need is an AppleID and 5 minutes of your time. Don't forget to submit an Apple System Profiler report along with your bug report, otherwise Apple will bug you about it 3 days later. And if you have already submitted Feedback to Apple by the time you read this post, it still is worthwhile to file a Bug Report. Please do not forgo doing that.

Have you looked at the Feedback page? One of the options available there is to offer Bug Reports

yeah, I sent a bug report yesterday. Thanks for suggestion

Terence Devlin wrote:

Have you looked at the Feedback page? One of the options available there is to offer Bug Reports

I have done more than looked, Mr. Devlin. I have submitted feedback for various Apple software and hardware products for several years now from that page. But since my intentions were not clear to you, I will make an attempt to explain.

Pull up the Apple Feedback page and then do a keyword search on that page for "bug." You will not get any results. That's because the main Feedback page does not alert the reader to the fact that he or she can indeed submit Bug Reports there.

Next, have a look at the iPhoto Feedback Back page itself, then click the "Feedback Type" popup menu and notice how there are a whopping 10 choices to pick from. One of those 10 is labeled "Bug Report." Yet, I do not suspect that everyone reading this thread will intuitively know "Bug Report" is the correct one of the 10 they should select. To me it is intuitive, of course; but in my years of using computers, I have learned that few people seem to think exactly as I do. And for that reason I provided in my previous post a clear and easy link to Apple's Bug Reporter, where there will be no mistake about what is being reported.

Furthermore, I personally feel that Apple's Bug Reporter is faster to use because it requires fewer overall clicks and data entry fields than submitting a bug via the Feedback page.

Therefore, my previous post was not made in ignorance but by informed choice. Bug reporting via the Feedback page is basically for those who lack an AppleID or for whatever reason do not wish to take a few moments to create one. But Apple's Bug Reporter exists separately from the Feedback page and for good reason. The Bug Reporter is not in any way replaced by bug reports via the Feedback page.

In addition, in my experience I have never once received any communication or interaction from Apple concerning anything I have sent to them via the Feedback Page. However, I often get to engage Apple engineers directly via Apple's Bug Reporter. I am unfortunately not able to discuss the nitty gritty of those conversations due to Apple's restrictive NDA. But suffice it to say, my recommendation stands for submitting Bug Reports via Apple's Bug Reporter.

No, your intentions were clear to me. And as you enjoy interacting with the Engineers and so on, that's all well and good. But many people don't want to get that involved. They just want to say 'Hey, you know this is broken, right?'

And, of course, even though it is marvellously intuitive to you after all your years using computers, I'm pretty sure that "Bug Report" is clear and unambiguous to most folks, even when surrounded by a "whopping" other 9 options.

So, while "few people seem to think exactly" as you do, - and vive la difference, right? - I trust that many people of even average intelligence would pick the right option.

Regards

TD

Mr. Devlin, you may "trust" certain things about people with "average intelligence" but I have chosen not to. And I say that without wishing you or anyone else here any offense. I provided a directly link to Apple's Bug Reporter and detailed instructions on what to do in part because in my life I have learned to take nothing for granted. My other reason in posting was that I feel the Bug Reporter is a superior way to submit bugs, for people who can accept that way.

As to my interactions with Apple engineers, such has nothing to do with personal enjoyment. When one submits a bug, there are times when additional details are required. Engineers do have questions for bug reporters on occasion. I know this from being on various OS X software beta lists and from my past bug reports with Apple. Such communication becomes possible when using the Bug Reporter. The Bug Reporter is also convenient for the user because all your past bug reports are saved, so you know exactly what you have submitted before. Apple will even tell you if the bug you submitted has been reported before.

Some people couldn't care less about all this, you're absolutely right. But I do and perhaps a few others out there do too. That is why I posted the Bug Reporter recommendation. Again, I was simply writing from experience, nothing more. Should someone reading this choose to avoid taking my advice, so be it. I am not here to garner points.

Moreover, my underlying motivation for posting here has absolutely nothing at all to do with you personally, even though your previous two posts reveal mild frustration. My guess is that after you recommended the Feedback page, you were dissatisfied with the alternative recommendation that followed. Rest assured though I did not seek to step on your toes in writing my previous two posts.

At the end of the day, my primary motivation in posting here is to chime in about the problem and see these bugs get fixed by help others where possible to join the effort and report problems to Apple. If someone chooses your "Apple Feedback page" advice in this thread, more power to them. And if they choose the Bug Reporter, bravo. Getting the bug fixed is paramount, as it brings benefits to everyone who uses iPhoto and FaceBook.

Best wishes,

James Wages

I just stumbled upon this post after having the same problem today. I had just entered "descriptions" in 100 photos only to find out that Facebook uses the Title field instead of the Description field for its captions. Unwilling to change the Title manually for all 100 photos, I tried several things that did not work for me (exporting with title and description and then importing from Facebook did not work). Finally, I came across a script that would copy the Description to the Title field in iPhoto.

This post http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070822121100394 contains a link to the script; I did have to make one change (which is highlighted further in the post). I selected the 100 photos in iPhoto and then ran the script. Worked great.

As of iPhoto 9.5 this behavior has changed. For albums first synced to facebook using iPhoto 9.5, iPhoto will use the description field as the caption on Facebook. However, for albums originally synced with Facebook on prior versions of iPhoto, iPhoto will continue to use the image title as the caption on facebook.

You can read more about this change here: iPhoto 9.5: Syncing albums with Facebook