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)
Your screenshot is showing that you are currently running Script Editor and are trying to open the Photos application in script Editor. There may be a misunderstanding, how to use Apple Scripts. ScriptEditor can open Apple Scripts, not other applications.
For example, If you want to run the script described here: Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension ,
The script will run and tell the Photos application to change the titles of the selected photos to the filenames.
Test it on a new Photos Library, not on your main library, before you try it on your main library. And make a current backup of your Photos Library, before try to run scripts soon the library.
If you want the file name under the thumbnail image here's how to achieve that:
1 - go to the View ➙ Metadata menu option and check all metadata items.
2 - go to the Photos User Tips section and download the AppleScript Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension.
You can download a compiled version of the script as an application from this tutorial site: P01 - Applescripts from Photos’ User Tips Compiled as Applications
3 - select about 1000 photos at a time and run the AppleScript.
If you want the file name under the thumbnail image here's how to achieve that:
1 - go to the View ➙ Metadata menu option and check all metadata items.
2 - go to the Photos User Tips section and download the AppleScript Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension
You can download a compiled version of the script as an application from this tutorial site: P01 - Applescripts from Photos’ User Tips Compiled as Applications
3 - select about 1000 photos at a time and run the AppleScript.
BTW --everyone is talking about "Moments" I have Photos 2.0 & there is NOTHING called "Moments".
Click on the Photos album and you'll see each moment. Click on the left arrow in the upper left hand corner and it'll take you to Moments with titles:
Try one of these two:
1 - go to the ➙ Force Quit menu and relaunch the Finder. Then check to see if the unzipped file is visible.
2 - boot into Safe Mode, Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode, and check the location where the zipped file was unzipped.
This is what should happen:
I've not had much luck with services. I've created a folder in my Documents folder for the apps and add them there. I then added the folder to the Dock as show here:
For me it's much easier and quicker to get to the apps and activate.
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.
Once you set Titles to be viewed in the View ➙ Metadata menu option use this AppleScript to put the file names of the selected photos into the Title field: : Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension or Script: Changing the Title to the Filename without Extension.
A list of the various user tips are available here:Thematic Index to Photos for Mac Related User Tips:
While I appreciate being judged as much as anyone, I'm actually not that guy. I read the other replies. I saw the running a script option. I've never done that before, but I opened script editor and gave it a whirl. I didn't get very far because I have High Sierra, and my options are not the same. Under input, in the drop down menu of available apps, "Photos" is grayed out. So that was a dead end.
I called apple support, and he said there is no fix. He agreed that the interface should be repaired so that the file names pop up the second we select "Titles." He told me to go to the help page and let the developers know that there is still a demand for this fix. So I did. So...maybe I got the wrong guy, I don't know.
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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You can as described above if you bother to read the answers but I guess it is easier to RANT than to read and resolve things - in Photos View menu ==> metadata check titles and then run one of these script to set the titles to the file name either with or without the extension - : Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension or Script: Changing the Title to the Filename without Extension or if you prefer download the extension complied into an application by Old Toad - http://www.oldtoadstutorials.net/No.P01.html
LN
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
Where are photo file names?
