I lost thousands of photo Titles from a 24,000 photo collection after converting iPhoto 9.6.1 library to new Photos 1.0 for Mac app.

When you say Title, do you really mean File Name? If so, you didn't loose them, they are visible in Info window and in Search but they are different metadata elements. In the Moments view, the actual title, if the photo has one, is what is shown (not the file name). Photos and iPhoto handle this metadata differently. reimporting your library will not change things.

See my work around in my newer post "Photo's did not import all my images from iPhoto. It seems a number of people are having the same problem!

All of the titles appear as normal in iPhoto which is still on my iMac and working fine. Can I delete the Photos app and re-import with the hope that it gets things correct on the second try?

Have you enabled the display of the titles in Photos?

the titles you have written into the Title field in iPhoto should be displayed the thumbnails of the photos.

Go to the View menu > select the "Metadata" entry, enable Titles and badges. Or press Shift -cmd- T

Then you should see the titles below the thumbnails:

Yes, as leonie stated - if you actually had modified the title fields in iPhoto, so that the file name was replaced by a true title, yes those should show, by enabling them in View > Metadata > Titles

Same here!

However, the original iPhoto Library has not been deleted (it's still in the same place), and can be opened with nice and old iPhoto without losing any title.

I think I should stick to iPhoto until this terrible problem is resolved.

PCS5 wrote:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-export-from-iphoto/

tthis link has the answer

SPAM - No relation to the question and about a totally different program

LN

I am having the same problem (iPhoto filename appeared under thumbnail; Photo does not use the filename as the title, so nothing appears under the thumbnail). I also renamed many thousands of photos with titles that make them easy to retrieve in the search field (baby Johnny for example).

Any work around or update?

Has anyone tried this solution:

Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension

It is a bit beyond my ability, but I would like to know if it works.

zanyface wrote:

I am having the same problem (iPhoto filename appeared under thumbnail; Photo does not use the filename as the title, so nothing appears under the thumbnail). I also renamed many thousands of photos with titles that make them easy to retrieve in the search field (baby Johnny for example).

Any work around or update?

that is correct - one of several areas where the totally new application Photos is different from iPhoto - first you have to enable titles under view menu ==> metadata - check any metadata you want to see

then you can run one of these two scripts - Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension - Script: Changing the Title to the Filename without Extension - or use it compiled into an application by Old Toad - http://www.oldtoadstutorials.net/No.P01.html

And of course it works - that is why the experienced users here supplied it and recommend it

LN

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Thanks for the reply. I visited: Batch Changing in Photos, Tweaks to other Scripts

It is a bit beyond my ability. Is there a link to creating a script that is absolutely step-by-step?