easy question from a PC user trying to help his Apple mate...

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Hi, I am fairly comfortable with a PC but I'm trying to help someone who is very non PC friendly and has bought a mac, had it a year and still cant use it. I've used one for about ten minutes. I need a shortcut for tonight, whereafter Iwill try to learn on my own. For now, what i'd like to know is, how do you change the filename of a photofrom within iPhoto? I take it this the proprietary photo software on Apple laptops? Anyway, when we change the 'title' in iPhoto it doesnt change the filename. He wants to change the filename so when he is attaching photos to email its easy for him to find the photo by name. Help?

Thanks!!

Marc
 
Hm. That's a case that you can't really handle with iPhoto. iPhoto is based on you _not_ really handling the photos at the level of filenames, but only meta-data. I can see that this, right in your case, is a problem... What you can _do_ is drag the photo to a folder in the Finder and rename it there before dragging copying/pasting it into the E-Mail message...
 
How little people know about using the Help program because it would tell you how to change the name of a photograph WITHIN iPhoto.

1. Open iPhoto
2. Highlight the photo you want to rename
3. Look in iPhoto's right hand column near the bottom of the column
4. Click on the "i" button, a window will pop up from it
5. Move your cursor of the "Title" nasme and push click, then type the name you want (leaving the info after the dot)
6. Once done type click anywhere else and the name will stick

Now that was easy. This was all done in iPhoto 5.0.4.
 
i will try that from within iPhoto, only been using the mac for 30 mins now. But will get there i suppose. thanks
 
Satcomer said:
How little people know about using the Help program because it would tell you how to change the name of a photograph WITHIN iPhoto.

1. Open iPhoto
2. Highlight the photo you want to rename
3. Look in iPhoto's right hand column near the bottom of the column
4. Click on the "i" button, a window will pop up from it
5. Move your cursor of the "Title" nasme and push click, then type the name you want (leaving the info after the dot)
6. Once done type click anywhere else and the name will stick

Now that was easy. This was all done in iPhoto 5.0.4.
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This doesn't rename the actual file. It adds metadata to the file so that spotlight can find it, but the actual file name doesn't change.

If the person is using Apple Mail, Eudora, AOL, or Entourage (what no T-Bird?) they can set iPhoto to attach the photos into a new email using your assigned Titles. Even then, if you save the attachments to the desktop, you'll notice that the original filenames remain.

If they're using a web based or alternative mail client, dragging the photo to the desktop and renaming it is probably the best option.
 
dragging to desktop and renaming is what I did initially but I felt like I was cheating and that there should be a better way. his biggest problem was tho that he wanted to be able to see what the photo looked like before attaching it, which we managed to with the list view while attaching. But showing him how to copy, paste, and rename a file in the space of 15 minutes turned out to be the most he'd learnt in such a short space and his head actually exploded. Ah well, anybody want an Apple laptop? Seriously tho, thanks for the help
 
What about selecting the pics to email in iPhoto and clicking the "Mail" (or is it "email"?) button on the bottom of the page? No reason I can see to try to dig for the picture...just start with the picture and tell iPhoto to mail.
 
If you read the original post of the thread... Your post doesn't solve the problem. At all.
 
rentose said:
He wants to change the filename so when he is attaching photos to email its easy for him to find the photo by name. Help?
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Sorry fryke, I interpreted that line to mean he wanted to change the name, so that he could find the picture more easily within the morass iPhoto calls cataloging. My point being, "why try and find it..meaning, why dig through a folder structure to locate the orignal?"

I guess I'm still not understanding the reason they want a name change.

Grrrr back at ya! :)
 
Sorry. Changed my nasty comment while you were answering. ;) ... Hm. My guess is that that Mac user wants to do something like that:

Mail a photo from iPhoto. It should be named as it's named in iPhoto, so if later he gets an answer, he'll know which photo the person is talking about without the other person having to send back the photo... Either way: Without actually renaming the file, there's not much one can do about this. And actual renaming of the file is not possible in iPhoto AFAIK.

Just noticed it _could_ of course be that you're right and he's trying to attach the photos going through the Finder. In this case, quite a few tips spring to mind. That mail button in iPhoto being one. But also "drag and drop" springs to mind. Mac's easy...
 
a web based email service, I dont know if they support smtp or imap or whatever I'd need to setup the Apple email program, but I will find out
 
Ah, okay. I tend to forget about those... You should be able to select a photo in iPhoto and hit Cmd-R (the Apple and the "r" key together) to reveal the photo in the Finder. Maybe this helps?
 
mosx86 said:
This doesn't rename the actual file. It adds metadata to the file so that spotlight can find it, but the actual file name doesn't change.

If the person is using Apple Mail, Eudora, AOL, or Entourage (what no T-Bird?) they can set iPhoto to attach the photos into a new email using your assigned Titles. Even then, if you save the attachments to the desktop, you'll notice that the original filenames remain.

If they're using a web based or alternative mail client, dragging the photo to the desktop and renaming it is probably the best option.
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Well he ASKED with this line:
rentose said:
For now, what i'd like to know is, how do you change the filename of a photofrom within iPhoto?
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Well excuse me for answering the question!
 
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