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)
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.
Go to P01 - Applescripts from Photos’ User Tips Compiled as Applications and download a compiled version of that script as an application. Then all you need to do is select the photos you want to get the file name under the thumbnails and run the application.
Okay - thank you both. Apparently my learning curve is a downward spiral. 😕 I'm up against a deadline today, so I'm going to trudge through the project as is (without having the files names to reference), but I will try again in a few days. Again, much appreciated. 😉
Which script are you running? My V1.3 script from here Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Where are photo file names? works for me.
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Here is a link to some AppleScripts that will add the filenames as titles.
Changing Photos Titles via AppleScript
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Have you enabled the titles to show in the "View" menu in Photos? "View > Metadata"?
The titles will show in the "Moments" below the photos.You can see the original filenames in the Info panel for a photo.
Also note that once you have enabled Titles in the View>Metadata menu (or with the command-shift-T keyboard shortcut) you can add a title to a photo that doesn't have one by hovering the pointer over the white space below it. That will reveal in grey its "untitled' name. Click on that & type in the title right there.
I am not referring to photo "Titles" -- I am referring to photo filenames. In iPhoto, when "Titles" was selected under the View menu, the camera-assigned filenames would appear below the photos. You could then edit the "titles" as seen below:
In Photos, these "Titles" do not appear, even if View -> Metadata -> Titles is selected. The only way to see them is to in the "Info" panel, as you mentioned above. This makes the hours and hours of time I have spent over the years renaming photos' filenames to a more meaningful "title" in iPhoto totally wasted! You can't see the "titles" (i.e., renamed filenames) in any of the list displays in Photos -- and to make matter worse, since Photos does not include the renamed filenames created in iPhoto, you cannot use that information in searching for the photos!
Just to clarify -- it appears that when Photos imports images from iPhoto, it totally ignores any filename renaming that you have done. It simply does not import that information! So if you had a thousand photos in iPhoto that you "titled" by changing "IMG_2345" to "Fred in NYC", etc. -- all that work is completely lost because Photos completely ignores that information when it imports the images from iPhoto.
Photos does import the filename -- it is visible in the Info window -- but the problem is basically that a filename of a photo doesn't really have anything to do with its title. (The title field is metadata stored within the photo file itself, while the filename is stored in the file system.) iPhoto displays the file name (less its extension) if the title metadata field is empty & supports searching on it; Photos does neither.
So what you need is a practical way to add the filename to the title field of the photo if you are to continue using your organizational scheme in the Photos app. This should be doable using Applescript with either iPhoto (before importing the photos into Photos.app) or afterwards with the Applescript support built into Photos.app. However, I do not have the time right now to write such a script myself (& I'm too rusty on Applescript to do it quickly even if I did) but I think someone will begin publishing scripts for this & similar needs in the days & weeks to come.
If you can't wait for that, it might be worth asking for help in the ASC Applescript forum, or in any of the other Applescript-oriented support sites on the web.
EDIT: I said that Photos doesn't support searching on a file name. I was wrong about that -- it does -- but that isn't of much help with this issue.
I have your exact same problem. Very frustrating. Perhaps the Apple software engineers could have foreseen this problem. Overall, Photos 1.0 is disappointing in many respects. Sadly, when you go to the Apple Feedback site, there is no option to give feedback on Photos. iPhoto is still listed on that page. Again, shouldn't someone have thought to update that page knowing users are going to have a lot of feedback about Photos 1.0.
If anyone comes up with a solution, please let us know. Here's a link to discussion of my question.
Sadly, when you go to the Apple Feedback site, there is no option to give feedback on Photos.
Photos is part of MacOS X and not sold separately, so the feedback form to use is this:
I am not referring to photo "Titles" -- I am referring to photo filenames. In iPhoto, when "Titles" was selected under the View menu, the camera-assigned filenames would appear below the photos. You could then edit the "titles" as seen below:
And that is what I am seeing in Photos - the iPhoto titles below the thumbnails:
In iPhoto, before migrating the library: The default version name remained in iPhoto's Title field:
And in Photos - the same name below the thumbnails, after migrating the iPhoto Library, clearly visible in the "Moments" view.
Toggling "View > Metadata > Titles" turns this on and off.
Where are photo file names?
