Spotlight Not Showing Photo Names From iPhoto

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Spotlight Not Showing Photo Names From iPhoto

I gave all my photos from iPhoto a title via the information box. It works great for searching in iPhoto, but Spotlight will only show me the titles that my camera gave, so for example, "IMG_1349". I didn't copy that from a photo, the idea is that there's IMG followed by a 4-didget number. So I can't search for photo titles. Is there a fix for this? Do I need to upgrade to Leopard (no problem, I've got the disc)?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.7), Late 2006, 1.83 GHz Core 2 Duo

Posted on Jan 17, 2016 12:03 PM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

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Jan 17, 2016 1:40 PM in response to HFTaylor12

I can't find it right now, but there's a way to write your on custom filter/add-ons for spotlight, closest I can find is this...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2005/04/macosx-10-4/9/

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ChitlinsCC

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Jan 17, 2016 1:48 PM in response to HFTaylor12

My bet is that there is an internal iPhoto "database" of some sort that holds Titles, descriptions, etc.

One could test this pretty easily by adding a Title to a photo in iPhoto > then IMMEDIATELY use Spotlight to find some file with the VERY Latest modification date

I found this > http://www.scanyourentirelife.com/how-get-photos-out-export-iphoto-titles-descriptions/

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