Batch change of titles

I was just sorting my photos of my last vacation (around 1100). For better orientation I changed the titles of the photos by batch change, with automatically generated subsequent numbers. When I used the 'sort by titles' command from the menu my whole sorting of my photos got mixed-up. Because the automatical sorting of iPhoto does not support simple subsequent numbers!!! Instead of 1, 2, 3...9, 10, 11 iPhoto is sorting 1, 10, 11, ...2, 20, 21, ... This is simply outragous! I could strangle the guy who programmed this part and didn't think of this simple issue. He or she was probably a former Microsoft worker!

When using numbers to order files, it is necessary to pad the correct number of zeros in the earlier numbers. Meaning, if you have 99 files, you need to start with 01, 02, 03. If you have 100 to 999 files, then you have to start with 001, 002.
This is true with titles in iPhoto, but also true with the order of any files in the Finder. Simple issue or not - it's been this way with Mac for quite some time.
Regards.

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