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)
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.
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:
OldToad,
thanks for this link and post... Great Stuff !!!!
God Bless !
Here is a link to some AppleScripts that will add the filenames as titles.
Changing Photos Titles via AppleScript
SyBB
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.
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
LN
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.
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.
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.
Okay - thank you both. Apparently my learning curve is a downward spiral. 😕 I'm up against a deadline today, so I'm going to trudge through the project as is (without having the files names to reference), but I will try again in a few days. Again, much appreciated. 😉
Where are photo file names?
