Alphanumerically sort Backgrounds in the Library

I am trying to export the background images of a section of my slides. I know the background numbers of the first and last slides of the section.
However, the backgrounds are listed in lexical order, not alphanumerical order.
I need to be able to alphanumerically sort the backgrounds so I can select ALL the backgrounds (at the same time) of the section that I want to export.

Sounds like you should organise all your folders by date order and give them a descriptive name, That way you can find things far more easily. Then you should keyword the pics so you can find within entrire library.
here's a fictitious set of folders to demonstrate.
2008/
2008-01-January/
2008-01-29 Gardening
2008-01-29 Night Out
2008-01-31 Trip to Zoo
2008-02-Febuary/
2008-02-01 Dog's birthday
2008-02-03 Cat's Birthday
2008-02-03 Race Meet
This structure as shown above is also good in that it will survive different programmes and even different OSes. Are you going to rely on Adobe, let along LR being around in 30yrs time? One should never let a programme dictate your fundamental filing structure - iPhoto, iTunes yuck, messy.
I also try and separate out differing shoots from each day as I'm hardly likely to want to look through gardening and night out shots together and it also speeds up individual folder rendering.
This specific structure is designed so it will always correctly arrange by date, do this and your problem is solved as LR simply imports your folder structure.
I've used this for a long time now and it's very robust.
Though
2008 - 02 - 17
also works as does
2008_02_17
just be consistent with what ever suits you.
I prefer using dashes to underscores, more readable and easier to type and I think this method
20080117
is stupid/useless [unless you are a computer].
I use Bridge to import from Cards [LR sucks at importing as it doesn't copy all file types] and you can set Bridge to place images in folders by date shot automatically.

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Sounds like you should organise all your folders by date order and give them a descriptive name, That way you can find things far more easily. Then you should keyword the pics so you can find within entrire library.
here's a fictitious set of folders to demonstrate.
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This specific structure is designed so it will always correctly arrange by date, do this and your problem is solved as LR simply imports your folder structure.
I've used this for a long time now and it's very robust.
Though
2008 - 02 - 17
also works as does
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just be consistent with what ever suits you.
I prefer using dashes to underscores, more readable and easier to type and I think this method
20080117
is stupid/useless [unless you are a computer].
I use Bridge to import from Cards [LR sucks at importing as it doesn't copy all file types] and you can set Bridge to place images in folders by date shot automatically.

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I am trying to manage under a same travel project different albums sorted by country.
So I created a project (World Trip) and I started to import the picture from the first country. I have created a folder (Russia) under which I created different album all related to that country. I have then attached all the pictures in the different albums.
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If you look at the screenshot above. Under the Travelling section, if I click Projects, in the browser view I see my only project and when mouse-hovering it I can see pictures from Russia and Mongolia. But if I double click on this project, the view is empty.
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I really don't get it. Even after reading the Aperture manual, it did not explain the behaviour I'm seeing.
If someone could explain me better what are projects and folders, and especially what is a folder within a project and vice versa.
Also, if you know how I could arrange (better) my photos? I would like to have all the pictures sorted by country, but within one main top structure. And under each country, I would have different albums, with subset of pictures, and sometimes pictures could be in more than one albums. How should I structure my library then?
I'm using Aperture 3.4.1.

IMO organizational structures that over-use Folders are what I call Folder-think or film-think, and should be avoided in favor of database-think. Try to use keywords and Albums as much as possible in your organizing in lieu of folders. A country, for instance, should simply be a keyword applied to all pix from that country; not a folder.
Organize into Projects first and import one Project at a time; it should only take a couple of minutes to import each Project. Larger Project sizes can slow some computers. Personally I set 500 as my arbitrary maximum number of images in each Project but your mileage will vary. Experiment to see what number of maximum images in a Project may or may not slow your particular setup/workflow down; my guess is that 500-image projects will be fine unless maybe you are shooting a D800 or if there are scan files involved.
Before importing one should:
• Back up the originals before importing into Aperture. This is an absolutely essential step to a safe workflow.
• Decide what keywords to batch-apply to each Project.
From an earlier post of mine on this topic:
Projects should be just that: individual-shoot (i.e. time) based projects rather than some kind of organizing tool for all the architectural photos or whatever. For performance reasons personally I keep each Project under 500 20-MB images, making a second Project if the shoot is large. E.g.
110829_KJones_Wed_A,
110829_KJones_Wed_B,
110829_KJones_Wed_C, etc.
One or more albums will always organize the KJones wedding pix together anyway. All three Projects (110829_KJones_Wed_A, 110829_KJones_Wed_B, 110829_KJones_Wed_C) would have the keyword "KJones_Wed" applied to each pic, which allows an Album "KJones_Wed" to be quickly created at any time.
The way I look at it conceptually:
Aperture is a database (DB), and each image file lives in one and only one Project.
Albums are just collections of Pointers that point to individual image files living in one or more Projects. Since they just contain pointers, albums can be created or deleted at will without affecting image files. Very powerful. And Albums of pointers take up almost zero space, so they are fast and do not make the Library size grow.
Keywords can be applied to every image separately or in batches. Keywords are hugely powerful and largely obviate the need for folders. Not that we should never use folders, just that we should use folders only when useful organizationally - - after first determining that using keywords and albums is not a better approach. Most of the time folders are inappropriately used.
As one example imagine the keyword "flowers." Every image of a 100,000 images Library that has some flowers in it has the keyword flowers. Then say we want to put flowers in an ad, or as background for a show of some kind, or to print pix for a party, or even just to look for an image for some other reason. We can find every flower image in a 100k-image database in 2 seconds, and in another few seconds create an Album called "Flowers" that points to all of those individual images.
Another example is a european train trip. It may be one Project but spans multiple countries in a few hours. No problem, just keyword each pic with the appropriate country and create an album for each country; or another album for some combination of countries (e.g. "Baltic," "Scandinavian," etc.).
Similarly all family pix can have a keyword "family" and all work pix can have a key word "work." Each individual pic may have any number of keywords. Such pic characteristics (work, family, flowers, country, etc.) should not be organized via folders.
So by using keywords and albums we can have instant access to every image everywhere, very cool. And keywords and albums essentially take up no space in the database.
Another (IMO poor) approach would be to use a folder "Family" for family pix, a folder "Flowers" for flowers pix and another folder "Work" for work pix. IMO such folders usage is a very poor approach to using an images database (probably stemming from old paper or film work practices). Note that one cannot put an image with family in a field of flowers at a work picnic in all three folders; but it is easy using keywords.
As an aside note that empirically many users find that even though the Aperture DB can contain hundreds of thousands of image files, no problem, individual Projects should be limited in size for speed reasons. Personally I limit Projects to a maximum of ~400 to ~500 RAW NEF files, but hardware and workflows vary.
HTH
-Allen

Alphanumerically sort Backgrounds in the Library

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