I've "titled" many, many photos in iPhoto by changing the filename (e.g. "DSC_2254" --> "On vacation in Hawaii"), but there appears to be no option in Photos to show the filename. So none of my "titles" appear. Am I missing something?
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
If you open your Photos Library in Power Photos as a second browser, you can seethe metadata as column in a nice list view, or you can show the filenames as a subtitle below the thumbnails.
Even the free trial version can do this.
As an added bonus, the grid view can show the thumbnails on a dark background:
For a very large library PowerPhotos needs a long time to launch, so I simply keep it open at all the time.
If you open your Photos Library in Power Photos as a second browser, you can seethe metadata as column in a nice list view, or you can show the filenames as a subtitle below the thumbnails.
Even the free trial version can do this.
As an added bonus, the grid view can show the thumbnails on a dark background:
For a very large library PowerPhotos needs a long time to launch, so I simply keep it open at all the time.
Once you set Titles to be viewed in the View ➙ Metadata menu option use this AppleScript to put the file names of the selected photos into the Title field: : Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension or Script: Changing the Title to the Filename without Extension.
A list of the various user tips are available here:Thematic Index to Photos for Mac Related User Tips:
You can as described above if you bother to read the answers but I guess it is easier to RANT than to read and resolve things - in Photos View menu ==> metadata check titles and then run one of these script to set the titles to the file name either with or without the extension - : Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension or Script: Changing the Title to the Filename without Extension or if you prefer download the extension complied into an application by Old Toad - http://www.oldtoadstutorials.net/No.P01.html
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Go to P01 - Applescripts from Photos’ User Tips Compiled as Applications and download a compiled version of that script as an application. Then all you need to do is select the photos you want to get the file name under the thumbnails and run the application.
While I appreciate being judged as much as anyone, I'm actually not that guy. I read the other replies. I saw the running a script option. I've never done that before, but I opened script editor and gave it a whirl. I didn't get very far because I have High Sierra, and my options are not the same. Under input, in the drop down menu of available apps, "Photos" is grayed out. So that was a dead end.
I called apple support, and he said there is no fix. He agreed that the interface should be repaired so that the file names pop up the second we select "Titles." He told me to go to the help page and let the developers know that there is still a demand for this fix. So I did. So...maybe I got the wrong guy, I don't know.
Here is a link to some AppleScripts that will add the filenames as titles.
Changing Photos Titles via AppleScript
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Apple's method of naming files has been lousy from the start - you get a photo from something digital and it is labelled as something like D7K_2242 as noted by thedatadude elsewhere in this thread. My first mistake when I uploaded to iphoto my photos was to assume that if I changed the title, it changed the photo name. Reseting my camera by deleting all the photos after upload, a different D7K-2242 would eventually come up, be titled as something else, but when I eventually burnt a DVD of photos for a friend, quite afew went AWOL, because the same file name overwrote the previous one!
Having learnt my lesson, every file is renamed before it goes into iphoto/photo, to something like 20170524 San Francisco A 08 - YearMonthDate (Location or event) (letter if I have lots of photos on that day) number within the sequence. If I want more data attached to the photo, I use faces, keywords, and very occasionally a description. I used to be able to see those photo names as the default title in iPhoto
Transferring from iPhoto to photo, all the names are gone, although the titles are still correct. But you can only see them if you open info, as it displays non-existent titles instead of defaulting a blank title to the file name.
For new uploads, I am wasting my time when I upload and doing faces by highlighting the file name (minus the ".jpg") copying (Command-C) and pasting into title (Command-v). Far from ideal. If someone knows how to do this with an applescript or similar, I'd be greatful, for those who have different titles, you'll need another solution.
Three years later....several OS updates later...this STILL hasn't been fixed! Come on developers. We want an option to view our image file names under the image. I know we can rename them. I don't want to rename 300 photos. Just let me see the existing file name that the camera gave the photo.
Unfortunately this is still the case in 2018. IMO the grosset oversight in the history of image managing application.
One seriously wonders whether the engineers writing this software use it themselves or even shoot fotos !
Boy, do I agree. When Apple degraded iPhotos to Photos, key issues were missing. Despite many users requesting fixes, none happened. I have scanned over 14,000 family pictures, and they are all organized in their file names. However, Apple decided that the only way to sort the photo library is by the creation date; and no regard given for organized file names. For me, my pictures are organized by the date the film was scanned, which has nothing to do with the date the picture was taken. Apple -- PLEASE fix this -- this is such a simple fix, and it's been maybe two years to do so. Apple has not responded to a single such request in all the threads that I have followed on this issue. PLEASE fix this.
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 ,
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.
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.
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 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:
In Photos, these "Titles" do not appear, even if View -> Metadata -> Titles is selected. The only way to see them is to in the "Info" panel, as you mentioned above. This makes the hours and hours of time I have spent over the years renaming photos' filenames to a more meaningful "title" in iPhoto totally wasted! You can't see the "titles" (i.e., renamed filenames) in any of the list displays in Photos -- and to make matter worse, since Photos does not include the renamed filenames created in iPhoto, you cannot use that information in searching for the photos!
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.
Where are photo file names?
