Q: How can I identify which albums photos are assigned to in Photos.

Yes, you can do it.

 

Thank you.

That's great!  Thank you, Jaques.

I posted the link to your script here:   How to find out the albums a photo is in: Jacques Rioux's script

Hello,

socraties wrote:

 

Jacques -  I'm having trouble setting this up.  Maybe it's easy for you to see what I'm doing wrong.  Two problems:

 

1 -  I receive this error when clicking on the "Step" button in Automator.

 

This is the syntax I copied and manually typed into the Automator Script window:

 

 

 

It lacks the "s" character in the first button word.

display dialog t buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"

Or, you can use this line (the dialog show two buttons, a default and a cancel buttons).

display dialog t  -- you can press the Enter key or the return Key to close the dialog

socraties wrote:

 

Second Problem:

 

I added it to Services twice.  But it doesn't show up in the Services Menu in Photos (or anywhere).

This is because Photos doesn't work with a service of  type  (Images).

Don't try to change it on your service, it will not change the original type on the already saved service

You must create a new service.

Select "No Input"  from the first popup  button --> Service receive: "No Input" from application: "Photos"

After the saving, this service  will be in the "General" services, not in the "Images" services

I have found a useful workaround for any timeout errors (error message -1712) that occur with any or Jacques Rioux's excellent scripts - for example this solved the timeout issues I was getting for the import folders as albums scripts. You just need to give the Mac a bit more time to count images etc: the default is 60 seconds, which often isn't enough. So rather than workarounds involving creating a parent folder, all you need to do is edit the script and add a timeout instruction and a close instruction after every event. So for this script I modified it thus:

tell application "Photos"

  set sel to selection

  with timeout of 10000 seconds

  if sel is {} then return -- no selection 

  set thisId to id of item 1 of sel

  set theseNames to name of (albums whose id of media items contains thisId)

  end timeout

end tell

if theseNames is not {} then

  set {oTid, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, return}

  set {t, text item delimiters} to {theseNames as string, oTid}

else

  set t to "No album"

end if

activate

display dialog t buttons {"OK"} default button "OK" -- you can press the Enter key or the return Key to close the dialog