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.
wouldn't I just launch PowerPhotos to find the image I am after? And NOT use Photos at all?
PowerPhotos is a companion to Photos. You use Photos to create the library, create albums, assign keyword, titles, captions.
Once that is done, you can use PowerPhotos to manage and browse the libraries and move photos between libraries.
I have the same problem. All the titles for my pictures in iPhoto, after migrating over to Photo, are now missing and are now "untitled". And I can't even sort my pictures by filename (or am I missing something? someone help! 😟)
Please post if you have any kind of solution. Can I revert back to iPhoto on my mac? I am a new user to Mac so any help is appreciated! Thank you.
I'm an Aperture user and I've been struggling with this as well and finally found a web page that gave me the solution. In Aperture, you basically need to do a Batch Change to copy the Version Name to the Title field. Photos for Mac only recognizes Titles. In Aperture, Title is an obscure little used field. Running an Apple Script I found on the attached webpage causes the Version Name you currently have to appear in the Title field in the Info panel in Aperture. When that is done and you migrate to Photos, and voila, the title will appear in Photos. I have never run an Apple Script before and I was initially reluctant to go down that path, but it was surprisingly easy if you follow the instructions on the web page. Here's the web page to cut and paste into your browser:
I'm hoping this subject fits in here: when scrolling through "All Photos" some of my photos display file names (and I don't mean titles) and some don't, even though they show up in the info panel. What's going on? Also when scrolling through "All Photos" the month & year would show up, a feature in iphoto that seems to have disappeared. I must say Photos has taken 0 steps forward and 3 steps backwards with this one.
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I'm hoping this subject fits in here: when scrolling through "All Photos" some of my photos display file names (and I don't mean titles) and some don't, even though they show up in the info panel. What's going on? Also when scrolling through "All Photos" the month & year would show up, a feature in iphoto that seems to have disappeared. I must say Photos has taken 0 steps forward and 3 steps backwards with this one.
You are not seeing file names in all photos as that is not an option - you are seeing titles and if there is a file name in the title it is because some time you have put the file name into the title - the only place you can see file names in Photos is in the info window - in all photos you can only see the title - and file names have no value anyway since you never use them with photos
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I have exactly the same issue as Washington Apples... I have all the view metadata selections clicked on and yet Title shows up "untitled". I haven't even titled my photo's I have left them with the original file info from the photo. And as per WA's issue none of these file names have been imported into Photo's. Ugly bug if indeed that's what it is... Big error...
I haven't even titled my photo's I have left them with the original file info from the photo.
Photos does not use the filename as the title by default. It will show any title that you add manually. You can see the filenames in the Info panel. It was Apple's design decision treat the filename differently from a user added title.
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.
Where are photo file names?
