Where are photo file names?

That is an idea.

I experimented a bit, and with Apple Script we could make it a bit simpler, directly in Photos: This will save the installation of exiftool and the necessity to export the files. This way the lossless workflow will be preserved.

Create an Automator action, that executes an Apple Script to change the titles to the filename, if the title is empty:

The Apple Script:

on run {input, parameters}

tell application "Photos"

activate

set imageSel to (get selection)

if imageSel is {} then

error "Please select an image."

else

repeat with im in imageSel

set title to the name of im

if not (exists (title)) then

set the name of im to the filename of im

end if

end repeat

end if

end tell

return input

end run

Launch Automator, create a new service, and drag a "Run Apple Script" action into the workflow.

Copy and paste the text above into the "Run Apple Script" action to replace the default text in the action.

Save this workflow with a suitable name. It will be installed in the services.

• Now launch Photos and select a few test images.
• Open the "Photos Menu > Services".
• The service should be shown in the menu - I saved my version as "filename2title".
• Select the service to let it run. When you click the selected photos again, the titles should change.

After the Automator action completed:

Have you enabled the titles to show in the "View" menu in Photos? "View > Metadata"?

The titles will show in the "Moments" below the photos.You can see the original filenames in the Info panel for a photo.

I have your exact same problem. Very frustrating. Perhaps the Apple software engineers could have foreseen this problem. Overall, Photos 1.0 is disappointing in many respects. Sadly, when you go to the Apple Feedback site, there is no option to give feedback on Photos. iPhoto is still listed on that page. Again, shouldn't someone have thought to update that page knowing users are going to have a lot of feedback about Photos 1.0.

If anyone comes up with a solution, please let us know. Here's a link to discussion of my question.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6984161

Your screenshot is showing that you are currently running Script Editor and are trying to open the Photos application in script Editor. There may be a misunderstanding, how to use Apple Scripts. ScriptEditor can open Apple Scripts, not other applications.

For example, If you want to run the script described here: Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension ,

• open the Photos.app by clicking the icon in the Dock,
• then select the photos where you want to change the titles,
• launch Script Editor and select to create a new script,
• then copy and paste the code of the script into an open Script Editor window and click the Run button in Script Editor.

The script will run and tell the Photos application to change the titles of the selected photos to the filenames.

Test it on a new Photos Library, not on your main library, before you try it on your main library. And make a current backup of your Photos Library, before try to run scripts soon the library.

I am not referring to photo "Titles" -- I am referring to photo filenames. In iPhoto, when "Titles" was selected under the View menu, the camera-assigned filenames would appear below the photos. You could then edit the "titles" as seen below:

And that is what I am seeing in Photos - the iPhoto titles below the thumbnails:

In iPhoto, before migrating the library: The default version name remained in iPhoto's Title field:

And in Photos - the same name below the thumbnails, after migrating the iPhoto Library, clearly visible in the "Moments" view.

Toggling "View > Metadata > Titles" turns this on and off.

Some of us are experiencing a situation where Toggling "View > Metadata > Titles does not solve the problem. Yes, it's a necessary step to make titles below photos visible, but, even with that, many photo titles are not appearing. Some do and some don't. In my case, any photo title from iPhoto that had a suffix such as .jpg, .tif, etc. DOES NOT APPEAR under the photo regardless of what is checked under Metadata.

Notice that "Add a Title" appears. The title (filename) was "Ann in Tennessee Shirt" in iPhoto and it appeared under the photograph. In Photos 1.0, however, it does not appear. One has to copy "Ann in Tennessee Shirt" and the paste it into the "Add a Title" field. Can you imagine doing this for thousands of photos?

I just tested - when I am doing the same in Aperture and migrate the Aperture library to Photos, the titles will migrate correctly, even with ".JPG" as part of the version name:

In Aperture: The edited version name below the image

In Photos: The added version names are shown as titles.

I'm not sure this is much of a solution for users importing directly from iPhoto, but one way to make Photos.app show the filename as the title is to create/set the IPTC Title tag before importing your photos into Photos.app.

I'm using ExifTool in a service created through Automator that executes a shell script so that I can select a batch of photos and apply several changes to EXIF tags. But you can easily add a line to also create the IPTC Title tag and set it to the filename.

Here is an example that strips out the file extension and uses a formatting option to start the title after the id (ex: 20150411-000...) I'm using in the filename. You could set the {16} to {0} to return the entire filename as the title.

Just install ExifTool and then create this service and save it. Then you can right click on an image (or a group of images) and batch update the tags.

Couldn't find a solution within Photos, so I resorted to AppleScript:

Here's a really quick and dirty way to do it... I'm sure this could be improved to do proper interpreting of the filename and have proper error conditions:

tell application "Photos" activate set myalbum to the last import album try set itemlist to selection on error errStr number errorNumber return errorstr end try repeat with currentitem in itemlist set currentfile to the filename of currentitem set the name of the currentitem to currentfile as text end repeat end tell return count itemlist

Just open up Script Editor, enter that code into a new item, select the items you want named in Photos, and then run the script.

To do even better, I created a smart album that only contains un-named items. It appears I can't do thousands of photos in one pass, but a few hundred at a time works well.

DRedfearn wrote:

I get as far as creating a new service and dragging the "run apple script" action to the workflow. I then paste in your script. However, at that point, my screen doesn't look like your clip - I don't see the "Service Receives box in Photos App" and the other options I see at the top of your clip.

It sounds like you started by selecting a Workflow document type in Automator. Instead, try starting by selecting the Service document type:

Tip: when you are getting errors from Automator workflows from Applescript actions, it is sometimes helpful to run the script in Script Editor & use the log > Results window to see exactly what's going on step by step.

Léoni;

I got this thread from another post I made, so .....

I tried creating the Automator script but it does not run nor does the new service appear in Photos' services. When I try running the script from Automator, with Photos open and a picture file selected, I get the follow error:

This being my first sue of Automator there's is likely some subtle thing I am doing wrong. Any guidance will be appreciated.

Thanks... Chris

Is there any way with Applescript to just remove/ignore the last four characters of the file name. That would remove all extensions.

If that's not possible in the same scripts how about a script top remove the last four characters from the Title field?