Where are photo file names?

I'd like to say thanks to léonie for the filename2title script - it took a little fiddling around, but it is working for me. Wish I had more experience in writing scripts!

David

I just ran it on my 4700 photo library and it completed the task in about a minute or so. Was faster than I expected.

Thanks for throwing in on my other thread...I have tried this script a dozen times, and I always get an error: "AppleEvent handler failed." This happens even after multiple reboots, and also while stepping through the script. Any ideas? Thank you!

EDIT: Wait a minute, I just found that when I select images in the Photos tab, the script won't work, but when I select them in albums > all photos, it does. We'll see if the names propogate into iCloud. Thank you!

The script is getting better and better 🙂

Do you have custom scripting additions installed?

I havenever tried to use them in an Automator workflow, only in standalone scripts.

léonie wrote:

Do you have custom scripting additions installed?

Hardly, this is my first proper exploration of AppleScript. 🙂

tt2

Ah, I meant leaving out the on run {input, parameters} ... end run construct. My current automator script is now a straight copy of the V1.3 script I posted above, and it works fine. 🙂

tt2

Sony raw is .arw - I have a lot of these too. There are a lot of raw formats - it would be nice if all the camera companies adopted Adobe raw (DNG) but that is extremely unlikely.

David

Did you build the app yourself or download it from the User Tip?

The scripts will also run from albums.

Remember when IBM's Watson won Jeopardy? Perhaps Watson could figure this out for us.

-Jay

I just created the script you posted on May 13 that creates titles from text with sequential numbers (text-01, text-02...). It also only works when the photos are selected in "All Photos."

-Jay

Yep I agree.

Thanks, R C-R.

Now to learn AppleScript to try and convert the filenames to titles for 8000+ photos.

Hope this makes my client happpy. - J

I think learning Applescript without a Mac would be extremely difficult. Perhaps it is time to break down & buy a Mac to see why so many people like them? 👿

Leonie

I see the scripts in this thread.

Is there a recommended "final" version?

Thanks.