Photo descriptions not showing on Facebook

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Alright, so the Title field is seemingly what iPhoto syncs with the Facebook Description field. Nothing much we can do about that.

This insight is not much use if you either don't want your iPhoto titles messed with, or already have hundreds of iPhoto descriptions that would take an eon to transfer to the titles.

I would love to know if there are any exporting tools out there for sharing photos from iPhoto 11 with Facebook that DO sync the iPhoto 11 and Facebook Description fields.

I'm committed to iPhoto 11, but not necessarily to the built-in sharing functionality if there is a better alternative. I would also be interested in hearing from someone at Apple why they chose to sync the iPhoto Title field rather than the description. Insight into this might help me accept the need to use Titles for descriptions. Currently, it just irks me.

Thanks

I have read in one or two places that if you upload the photos through Facebook, rather than through iPhoto, that what is entered in the "Descriptions" field will show up in the captions field on Facebook. However, one of these mentions said that this used to be the case. I have tried it and it did not work for me. Does anybody know if there is someway to bring back this feature, such as by changing an option/settings? Was it a change on Facebook's end or iPhoto's end?

Personally, I would much prefer to upload through Facebook because I don't want my album (on Facebook) being changed/deleted if I ever made a change/deleted the iPhoto album. I guess it's a sense of security for me.

Anybody have any insight on this method?

CNS85 wrote:

I have read in one or two places that if you upload the photos through Facebook, rather than through iPhoto, that what is entered in the "Descriptions" field will show up in the captions field on Facebook. However, one of these mentions said that this used to be the case. I have tried it and it did not work for me. Does anybody know if there is someway to bring back this feature, such as by changing an option/settings? Was it a change on Facebook's end or iPhoto's end?

Personally, I would much prefer to upload through Facebook because I don't want my album (on Facebook) being changed/deleted if I ever made a change/deleted the iPhoto album. I guess it's a sense of security for me.

Anybody have any insight on this method?

That would be a question for Facebook support not iPhoto support

LN

I too seek a fix for this iPhoto 2011 bug, but unfortunately it is now July 2011 and no fix appears to be forthcoming, despite of all the info on it in Apple's won forums. Therefore, the best I can suggest is that all reading this do as I did -- file a bug report with Apple at the following URL:

https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/wa/signIn

You just need an Apple ID and 5 minutes of your time. Be sure to generate an Apple System Profile report and upload that along side your bug report, otherwise Apple will just bother you about submitting it 3 days later.

And yes, it is important that you too file a report even though I have, since Apple seems to give priority to bugs based on how many people file the same report. You unfortunately cannot reference an existing bug report. You have to file a new report. But Apple keeps track of them and gives them priority accordingly.

In the meantime, until this bug gets fixed, we are forced to type photo descriptions in the photo TITLE field in iPhoto (which I agree is really frustrating because it is non-intuitive).

I wonder, Do Apple staff check these forums? If someone from Apple read this topic, they could somehow suggest to developers to implement this function to the next update