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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:
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.
Indeed, it would be simple to implement, but much more difficult to change the design guidelines for the applications.
Apple is very hard to hide the file system from the users. In many applications we are seeing documents and media in the user interface of the applications, but not files, unless we are in the Finder. On the iPhone or iPad we have to use the apps to find the documents and media, because there is no Finder.
and since you NEVER directly access the photos within the database knowing the file name is of very limited usefulness in most cases anyway
Not quite so limited, Larry. The filenames have many uses in addition to identifying files on the HD.
Many photographers are using the filenames as unique image names/numbers, so the customers can reference the photos they are selecting and want to order as prints. In Photos the images do not show any unique identifier at all in the browser, until we manually add some title. There is nothing below the thumbnails, when we are showing the photos to friends and family and they want to make a list of the photos they would like to have. Instead of the convenient image numbers we are just seeing lots of water white space.
And filenames are a great way to save a description of a photo, when we save it to the disk. Many users are disappointed, if the descriptions they added as part of the filenames are discarded by Photos, when we import photos and do not show as the title of a photo.
Unfortunately, the script to rename titles using the filename without extension just will not work under Sierra, returning an error message about not being able to generate the inverse of the extension. Has anyone come up with a new version?
Have you tried the compiled script that I offer at this tutorial site: P01 - Applescripts from Photos’ User Tips Compiled as Applications
This link will download it directly: 08 - Change Title to the File Name without the Extension
It works as advertised on 10.12.5 and Photos 2.0.
Version 1.3 works as a Service! Thanks.
-- Photos | Filename to Title | V1.3
-- Images with no title will have the filename used as the title
-- Use values below to exclude or include specfic file extensions from the generated title
-- Existing titles will be modified to add or remove any extension from the title as required
set exclude to ".jpeg.jpg.mov.png.tif.tiff" -- Extensions to exclude from the image titles
set include to ".cr2" -- Extensions to include in the image titles
use scripting additions-- Prevents errors triggered by offset clause
tell application "Photos"
activate
set updated to 0
set info to "Photos | Filename to Title"
set images to (get selection)
if images is {} then
display dialog "Please select items in Photos before calling this script." with title info buttons {"OK"} giving up after 5
else
repeat with image in images
set fullName to filename of image
set title to the name of image
if not (exists (title)) or title = "" then
set title to fullName
set current to ""
else
set current to title
end if
set pos to offset of "." in ((reverse of characters of title) as string)
set prefix to characters 1 thru (-1 - pos) of title as string
if pos > 0 then
set postfix to characters -pos thru -1 of title as string
else
set postfix to ""
end if
set pos to offset of "." in ((reverse of characters of fullName) as string)
set ext to characters -pos thru -1 of fullName as string
if (offset of postfix in exclude) > 0 then
set newTitle to prefix
else
set newTitle to prefix & postfix
end if
if (offset of ext in include) > 0 and not ext = postfix then
set newTitle to newTitle & ext -- Or could test here and add something like " | RAW" for raw formats
end if
if not current = newTitle then
set the name of image to newTitle
set updated to updated + 1
end if
end repeat
if updated = 1 then
set message to " item was updated."
else
set message to " items were updated."
end if
if updated = 0 then
set message to "No" & message
else
set message to (updated as string) & message
end if
display dialog message with title info buttons {"OK"}
end if
end tell
Hello. I'm beginning a large project and thought I would try your script for Changing Title to Filename...
Unfortunately Mac OS Sierra does not allow it to open because "it is from an unrecognized developer."
Thought you'd want to know.
Sincerely,
That is exactly what I did but Mac OX won't allow it to unzip. The zip file does the animation of a file opening or unzipping, but nothing results.
I searched the filename with Spotlight and it shows the file as being in my applications folder, however when I go to applications it is not visible. I have checked my utilities folder just in case.
Thanks
Use keywords, the keyword manager, info and intelligent albums to solve your problems !!!
I have more than a thousand key words and I can find everything very easily. You can even filter photos intelligently with a little practise and good thinking, so that you can have the albums completely presented under "all photos" ! Good luck ! (Any photo can have a multitude of keywords.)
Time Machine is not a clone. Time machine is a limited archive. It will archive as much information as it can based on capacity.
This is an important distinction from a clone, because Macs without internet restore capability turned on may not be able to recover from a Time Machine backup without their original installer discs. There is a special firmware for the internet restore on Macs that predate Lion's release.
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I have been going crazy trying to find a way to batch copy filenames to the title field in Apple's Photos program. Your app works great. Thank you so much! Is there an easy way to add it to the Services menu? Please keep in mind I definitely am not a programming expert. Thanks again!
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.
As more folks are using their I phones - even pros- for images that need a file name for exporting, so you do not duplicate when moving to Mac book pro for example, it is really bad design on Apple's part NOT to have a file name under an image! I am using High Sierra, and I photo is a thing of the past. Get with the program apple.. This is absurd !
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.
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.
Where are photo file names?
