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.
Since Apple can do this for printing why can't they do this for viewing pictures in PHOTOS?
They can and do. They just left out the writing of the file name into the Title field during import. That can be recitified by using this Applescript to do it manually: Photos for Mac: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename
Then keep telling Apple what missing features you'd like restored or new features added in Photos via Apple-Photos Feedback.
The feedback is working as can be seen from the following paragraph in this Apple webpage: Apple OS X El Capitan.
Photos has been fine-tuned to make it even easier to manage your library. Now you can add a location to a single image or to an entire Moment. Naming your favorite people in Faces is faster with a streamlined workflow. You can also sort your albums — and the contents inside them — by date, title, and more.
telling the other users here accomplishes nothing as does threatening us
if you want tot tell Apple https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html
And if you are using LightRoom then Photos has nothing for you - it is not a professional App like LR - it is a consumer app
LN
Tell Apple your needs - https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html
Maybe they will upgrade Photos enough or even come out with a professional product like Aperture with enough feedback
For now the choices are to use Aperture as it is with no planed future updates or use Photos as it is (with many short comings compared to Aperture - but improvements coming) - http://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview/?cid=wwa-us-kwg-mac-com
LN
Is the service set to "receive no input" in "Photos.app"? In the title bar of the service? And have you selected the photos?
If the service does not appear,you can always launch it directly from Automator.
Or use one of the script versions published on the Photos for Mac User Tips page.
For example: Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension
This user tip has a second version to be run as Apple Script. It is useful, if the Photos library s syncing with iCloud.
feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about the difference between filenames and titles.
Titles are not just limited to Apple's products. There's a whole set of IPTC metadata that are used with image files that are standard throughout the photography industry. It was developer for pro photographers to catalog their files. This webpage describes the IPTC standard: IPTC Standard - IPTC
Photos and iPhoto only uses a few of these fields, Title, Description and Keyword but many DAM (digital asset management) apps can use all of them.
Using the Applescripts in the Photos for Mac User Tips you can add the full file name, file name without extension or any customized title to that field.
Can I revert back to iPhoto on my mac? I am a new user to Mac so any help is appreciated! Thank you.
It depends on the iPhoto version you have installed. If you have iPhoto 9.6.1 installed, drag the iPhoto icon from the Applications folder back to the Dock. Double-click it to open your iPhoto Library in iPhoto.
But if you did not not update to iPhoto 9.6.1 before the migration it may be too late, because Apple stopped selling iPhoto.
See Barney's User Tip:
Can't Update iPhoto because it is not available in the App Store
Try repairing the library according to the instructions in this Apple document, Repair Your Library, and try the search again.
Warning: If you use iCloud Photo Library with Photos, this action will cause Photos to upload all your pictures again (from Fix missing or incorrect thumbnails in Photos - Apple Support).
I have recently spoken with an Apple Support person and they confirmed that displaying the Image file name was a feature present in iPhoto, but was lost in the updated Photo. Their suggestion was to send feedback to Apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback. He said this is the most effective way to get results, and the more of us that do this the better the chance we have of seeing this feature back in a future Photo update. This was my feedback to Apple:
"Thank you for the last Photo update... I appreciate some of the improved features that have been made to it. I would however like to note that the absence of the file names appearing underneath the image is sorely missed. I find this information very useful as I receive photos from other sources and it helps me to identify the ownership of the photos. I'm kind of lost without it now.
While the screen may look tidier and friendlier to some, it would be nice to know that this feature could be made available as an option to View (Display Image File Name).
Could I make this as a suggestion for your next update?"
Leonie,
Is there an easy way to take this script to have just the filename exported to TextEdit/Excel for selected images or Album? Im in search of a scripted way to do this: AppleScript Photos App copy filename to textedit or Numbers
This is strictly a user to user forum and Apple is not here - telling us accomplishes NOTHING
YOu can tell Apple - http://www.apple.com/feedback/
My guess is that it is a studied decision and that your choice is to accept it or change applications - but tell them what you think anyway
and remember with the user scripts referenced many times in this thread it is easy to do yourself and since you NEVER directly access the photos within the database knowing the file name is of very limited usefulness in most cases anyway
Script: Changing the Title to the Filename without Extension
Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension
These scripts are also available from Old Toad's web site complied into applications - http://www.oldtoadstutorials.net/No.P01.html
LN
JML54 wrote:
I've been trying to run it as a Service within Photos, and it fails in that context.
See the follow up I posted regarding automation and scripting additions here: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Where are photo file names?.
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OldToad,
thanks for this link and post... Great Stuff !!!!
God Bless !
The singing has stopped, but I'm still stuck. I can prove now, however, that there's a random effect. Just in case you guys can see something I'm missing, I made a little video. One caveat - I made a couple of tiny tweaks to the script while I was waiting for Photos to rebuild. I changed the default to 2 instead of 4 digits, I made the digits precede the text, and I fixed a minor typo (instead of o.k it now says OK). That shouldn't have affected my results. What you'll see in the video is:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/57192/batch_change_problem.mp4
Are you using iCloud Photo Library? Then the script will not work well with Photos. The problem is the line "get selection".
Photos selected this way may give timeout errors.
I just updated the user tip, so it uses the work-around for this problem proposed by NicFletcher: Don't ask for the current selection, but add the photos you want to process to an album with a fixed name.
-- batch change the title of images to the filename
(* How to use this script:
Open this script in Script Editor. Launch Photos.
The photos can be passed to the script in two ways:
1. Either select photos while viewing the "All Photos" album; this works better than Moments or smart albums
2. Or collect the Photos in a top level defined album with a fixed name.
If you want to select the photos without collecting them in an album, set the variable "ReadFromAlbum" to false
If you want to pass the photos in a toplevel album, set ReadFromAlbum to true and change the variable "theAlbumName" to the name of the album you are using.
When all all photo are selected or in the album and all parameters set, press the "Run" button in Scripteditor.
*)
set ReadFromAlbum to true
-- set this to true, if you want to pass the photos in a toplevel album
set theAlbumName to "PhotoDropBox" -- change this to the name of the album you will use
set imageSel to {}
tell application "Photos"
activate
if (ReadFromAlbum) then -- the photos will be passed in a toplevel album named "PhotoDropBox"
try
if existscontainertheAlbumName then
set thePhotosBuffer to containertheAlbumName
set imageSel to every media item of thePhotosBuffer
else
error "Album " & theAlbumName & "does not exist"
end if
on error errTexttwonumbererrNumtwo
display dialog "Cannot open album: " & errNumtwo & return & errTexttwo
end try
else -- process the selected photos from the All Photos album
try
set imageSel to (get selection)
on error errTexttwonumbererrNumtwo
display dialog "Cannot get the selection: " & errNumtwo & return & errTexttwo
end try
end if
-- check, if the album or the selected photos do contain images
if imageSel is {} then
error "Please select some images."
else
repeat with im in imageSel
try
tell im
set its name to its filename
end tell
on error errText number errNum
display dialog "Error: " & errNum & return & errText & "Trying again"
try
delay 2
tell im
set its name to its filename
end tell
on error errTexttwonumbererrNumtwo
display dialog "Skipping image due to repeated error: " & errNumtwo & return & errTexttwo
end try
end try
end repeat
end if
end tell
-- display dialog "Done"
return "Done"
OK, now that I seem to have this working well, I wonder if somebody might be able to help me out with a script that removes the file extensions from the titles?
Where are photo file names?
