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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)
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:
Ahh... I had not realised that, thx. Now I see the issue. BUT - where is the Info panel? I think in iPhoto you could click it on under View/ but I don't see it in Photo's, it doesn't come up consequently I have no idea about any of the info pertaining to my Photo's (including Filename).
The idea that you have to Get Info for every picture is unrealistic, it's cumbersome and time consuming.
And what happened to Search?! Using Get Info, I copy the filename into the Search panel and NOTHING.
How useful is that? Not at all, actually a big fat problem.
Personally I find Photos uninutitive and frustrating. It feels like a giant box of pictures that are a complete mess. I may add a photo from 2013 in 2016 and I can't add it to the folder with the others from the same event unless I want to re-create an album which I had in iPhoto but Photos didn't import.
What a mess. Apple please stop "fixing" things that aren't broken until you can actually do it right.
Exactly, it should, but it doesn't:
I have seen this happen too. Sometimes the search does not find items that are clearly there. In that case I make sure, I have the "All Photos" view selected when searching, and I clear the search field and repeat the search.
Hidden photos will not show when searching from the "Photos" view, but they will show, when searching from the "All Photos" view.
Shortsighted of Apple to not display file names in Photos app. Many of us have given searchable file names to thousands of photos over many years.
Finally I have located an app to display file names below thumbnails in Photos app: Documents 5 by Readdle. Good app to do some file management and read your files on ios devices. Integrates with Dropbox well.
That will not help in Photos on a Mac - and this discussion is about displaying the filenames below photos on a Mac. Power Photos can display several kinds of metadata below photo thumbnail on a Mac.
Shortsighted of Apple to not display file names in Photos app. Many of us have given searchable file names to thousands of photos over many years.
Finally I have located an app to display file names below thumbnails in Photos app: Documents 5 by Readdle. Good app to do some file management and read your files on ios devices. Integrates with Dropbox well.
Correct. While on Mac I just look at the file names on iPhone or iPad.
Otherwise seem to be stuck using Command-i individually for each photo. Apple hasn't provided an option for displaying file names below photos on Mac.
Haven't looked at Power Photos.
Retain the iphone photo name as a field. Allow it to be changed. Allow user to see photo lists, sortable by name, date, location, etc. like in any computer program that follows standard apple guidelines.
I agree, this really stinks. I have about 3000 photos & don't really use Photos. I just keep my images in a file on my desktop & use Preview to view them. Importing & retitling all my photos is too much work therefore the program is useless to me.
Why should we need to file a bug report? Surely Apple is aware of this issue, they designed the program.
If you don't use the application at all then why worry about its features? For those that want to use the application feedback and bug reporting are the ways to get in touch with the developers to request changes, enhancements, or report behaviour that seems anomalous. Apple may have designed the program, but they cannot know how every user will try to work with it.
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Why should we need to file a bug report?
Because if you use Photos then you would want Apple to fix it ASAP. Remember the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
But since you don't use Photos why are you here complaining? It doesn't involve you.
OK. Nearly 2 years later I have the same problem with the included photo app on my ipad pro ios 10.2. Very frustrating. This app is useless for me and I suspect thousands of others. It seems to hide all the info on exif files including the very many thousand of file names I have changed over the years on any photos imported from my desktop. There seems to be no way to find them on this app. The really infuriating thing is that the file name is not displayed only the date. Clicking on details only comes up with suggestions for related images or else the gps location or no info at all. What makes it worse is that this seems to be the default app for any photos with this operating system. No way to delete or change it. I have tried google photos which is better but it does not display my file names either. You need to click on info each time for them and all the info comes up even 15 year old jpegs from the desktop. Does anyone have any answers to my problem or know of a better storage and organising photo app?
I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I have added the script, I can see the script in Photos, but when I select it, nothing happen. I have tried also to run it without selecting photos, and nothing happen (the error message in the script isn't showing up). Any tips on how to run it? I am using OS X El Capitan.
When I created the script, I selected ''no input'' ''in Photos'' and left the Output box unchecked.
Thank you, Sylvain
I am using Photos 2.0. Everything in "view/meta-data" is enabled as per your directions. I only can see image titels if I click "info". The title does not display under the image.
Photos 2.0 does not have ANYTHING called Moments. There's something called Memories that plays a slide show. This seems like a phone app or something -very cheesy -I wonder who it's supposed to benefit? -pardon me -I was thinking out loud in text.
...I'm using Sierra. All I want is the Title to be imported with the photos and to be seen under the image. I go to a great deal of trouble ensuring my titles describe the subject, place, and date so I can search my entire system by any of those keywords. I have no use for The Cloud or redundancies -other than my own external drives.
Thanks -pardon my snarky tone ...this app has fouled my mood. I'll close it now and look at something pleasant xoxo 🙂
Thanks very much. Appreciated. Too much work for me -the point (to me) of using Apple and Mac OS is that all this is done automatically within an app. I'll ensure my photos are only referenced copies and delete everything and never open this god-forsaken app again. They are already sorted into folders I can easily locate.
BTW --everyone is talking about "Moments" I have Photos 2.0 & there is NOTHING called "Moments". "All Photos" includes EVERYTHING including videos ...which is unnerving -My Dad's 90th birthday is stored there -it's 20GB (backed up elsewhere).
Thanks for your help. ...Mr. Grumpy is going to make a coffee and calm down LoL
xoxo 🙂
It is now 2017, you would have though Apple would have addressed the issue by now, but sadly no. Come on programmers, this is not a terribly hard fix considering everything else you've been able to do, step up to the plate and fix this issue. I have over 3000 images, I can not spend time retitling each & every picture, I already did that once. Guess my other option is to use a non-Apple application.
Where are photo file names?
