Where are photo file names?

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.

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.)