This AppleScript sets the titles of photos imported into an iPhoto library based on a set of text files in a given directory:
tell application "iPhoto" set bound to count of (photos in current album) log bound repeat with i from 1 to bound set oldname to (name of photo i of current album) as string try set mytitle to do shell script "cat /Users/user/Desktop/Import/" & oldname & ".txt" set the title of photo i of current album to mytitle log mytitle on error log oldname end try end repeat end tell
