Q: How can I rename photos in new Photos app?

pdwr wrote:

 

I recently 'updated' to Photos from iPhoto. Now I can't see how to rename groups of my pictures. E.g. when I import from qmycamera, I could select some of the imported photos and give them a common name and sequential numbering

That isn't available in the current version of Photos. Use iPhoto if you still need that feature. It is in your Applications folder.

If you failed to update it prior to updating to 10.10.3, see here: Get iPhoto 9.6.1 if you didn't update before OS X 10.10.3

You can use the Automator services created by léonie for this in User Tips.

Here's my link to some tweaked script that I made. It may help.

Batch Changing in Photos, Tweaks to other Scripts

- Ken

It'll get better in the next version of the OS and Photo.

Are you kidding me? Of all the most basic operations, photos will not even allow a picture to be renamed? It will get better? It cannot get worse. This is NOT the company that Steve Jobs created, this is John Sculley all over again. Why are we paying for a premium product and receiving sub MS quality??? Obviously Mx Man, this isn't a shot at you in any way, I am just finding myself increasing frustrated with the lack of functionality of products coming from Apple today. And this is simply stupid in the most basic sense of the word... can't rename a file, stupid.

Of course no one here is "kidding" you - why would they

This is simply a place for experienced users to help inexperienced users - it is not a place to kid anyone and most certainly is not a place to attack people who are trying to help you

If you have a technical question then ask it politely and include complete information and you will get help - see Writing an effective Apple Support Communities question

If you want to RANT and attack people please do it somewhere else - there is no need for that here

And by the way you never have been able to rename a file in iPhoto or Photos so your entire RANT is based on a totally incorrect concept - once photos are import to iPhoto or to Photos it is impossible to change the file name without corrupting the library except by exporting which you still can do the same way as before

LN

I do believe I pointed out that I was not attacking MxMan, and I'll say again my comment was not meant to be pointed at anyone involved in this thread in any way. I very much appreciate MxMan's response (and the thread) because it answered my question.

As for my commenting on the topic of the thread, renaming files in the photos program, my comment is completely appropriate here as in direct reference the the thread topic

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As for the renaming process in iPhoto, I will have to correct you. I always renamed my photos to something meaningful within the app and never had a corrupted library. But, that is truly an inappropriate conversation here, it belongs in an iPhoto thread.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

MN

As for the renaming process in iPhoto, I will have to correct you. I always renamed my photos to something meaningful within the app and never had a corrupted library. But, that is truly an inappropriate conversation here, it belongs in an iPhoto thread.

Like your previous post you have no idea what you are posting - you have NEVER renamed a file in either iPhoto or Photos as it is not possible to do so without corrupting th library (you may have changed the title of a photo which makes no change to the file name and has nothing to do with the file - and of course you can still do that in photos too) - renaming of files can only be done during export that has not change a bit since iPhoto

And not RANTS and attacks are not appropriate here -  only technical questions

LN

Touche LN. Okay, so riddle me this. If I was never changing anything but the title (I will assume based on your comment that the title name and file name are different things) how would I accomplish this re-titling in photos?

MN

Disregard, I had been asking the wrong question all along. You have led me to the correct question and I armed with that the answer was easily found. Thank you so much for taking the time to correct me.

MN

Very simple - in the view menu under metadata verify that title is checked and the then hover your cursor under the the thumbnail and sleect the title there and enter the title you want - or in the info window enter the title you want

see how much better things work when you ask reasonable questions rather than post attacks and RANTs - good, clear question s get prompt and simple answers - RANT and attacks wast everyone's time

LN

You are once again correct, but...

if you were to re-read the string you would see the only person who made an attack on an individual involved in this thread, you would see it was LarryHN.

Thank you but I'm still not clear. When in iPhoto I could select all the pictures in an event, go to a drop down menu and select either to add a name or a description and all of the selected photos. Voila, they all have the same name or description. Now however it seems you can only do the same to one picture at a time. This becomes laborious with so many pictures. 

iPhoto gave you this ability:

1. Select ‘Batch Change’ from the Photos menu.
2. In the Batch Change sheet that drops down, select ‘Title’ from the Set dropdown menu, and ‘Text’ from the To dropdown menu.
3. A text field will display. Enter the text you want to use as the title for all of the images you selected earlier, for example, ‘Trip to Yosemite.’
4. Place a check mark in the ‘Append a number to each photo’ box. This will append a number to the title of each selected image, such as ‘Trip to Yosemite - 1.’

1. Click the ‘OK’ button to start the batch change process.

The batch change feature in iPhoto is a handy way to quickly change the titles of a group of related images.

You can select them all and set the Title to the same thing using the Info Panel.

There isn't a way to sequence them.