Importing Photos AND Captions from Pictures to Photos

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Importing Photos AND Captions from Pictures to Photos

Photographs and Videos from either an Android Phone or an iPhone or SD Camera Cards usually transfer to the "Pictures" Folder when instructed to do so from either printer card reader or via usb stick.

Captions are then given to each photo before wanting to import the captioned photos to the "Photos" Folder.

Whilst the photographs will transfer easily, the captions do not follow the transfer (though it has done so in the past). To put the captions back under the photos means copying and pasting when photos imported into Photos.

How can this be avoided?

iMac (Intel), Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Aug 9, 2017 9:29 PM

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Answer 1

LarryHN

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Aug 10, 2017 9:31 PM in response to AnneOx

Now that you have actually explained what you are doing using the correct terms (Words are critical since that is all we have to communicate with) - you are changing the file name - in Photos you can show titles (view menu ==> metadata) and this user script will assign the file name to the title - Script: Changing the Title to the Filename without Extension -- or including the extension -- Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension -- or use the script compiled into an application and posted by Old Toad - http://www.oldtoadstutorials.net/No.P01.html

LN

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Rich839

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Aug 9, 2017 10:28 PM in response to AnneOx

As far as I know titles and captions won't carry over to Photos to display beneath the photo. Perhaps one of the other contributors on this forum know of a way.

I would suggest adding the captions after you import the photos into the Photos app. It's no more work than doing it beforehand. That would obviate the need for the copy and paste procedure that you wish to avoid.

-- Rich

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AnneOx Author

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Aug 9, 2017 10:36 PM in response to Rich839

I do title the photos when they are in Photos and know that when exporting them, the titles go to, but sometimes the downloaded photos go to Pictures first! (As happens when downloading from, say, Facebook)

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markwmsn

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Aug 10, 2017 11:05 AM in response to AnneOx

When the photos do go to the Pictures album first, such as when downloading from Facebook (or using Image Capture), what method do you use to assign captions to those photos before importing them to the Photos application?

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AnneOx Author

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Aug 10, 2017 6:07 PM in response to markwmsn

Hi markwmsn

Thanks for your reply. When adding titles/captions in Pictures, I just click (right or left with the mouse) on the existing caption (whether .jpg or .pdf), and add/correct the title. From what I can see on my system, there is no other way - searched toolbars and even when I click onto "rename" under File - the caption still does not transfer to Pictures. Looks like I might just have to "grin and bear it"!

And on another point, but also talking captions - this time in Pictures, if the caption is longer than the box underneath the pictures, when I click on the caption, it always reverts to the beginning - most annoying when what I am trying to add/correct is at the end of the caption!!

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markwmsn

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Aug 10, 2017 9:16 PM in response to AnneOx

OK, I see the problem. That text in front of .jpg or .pdf in the Finder display of the Pictures folder is a filename, not a title or caption. That's a metadata attribute of the file that contains the picture. The title (which would appear below the picture in a Photos album or view) is an IPTC attribute of the picture inside the file.

When you say "it has done so in the past," you probably mean in the old application "iPhoto" that preceded the "Photos" application that comes with the system nowadays. The iPhoto application did display the filename under a picture that had no title; as soon as you gave a picture a title, that title was displayed instead of the filename. The new Photos application does not do that.

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