Cannot sort photos by name

I just upgraded to OS X 10.10.3 with the new Photos app. It seems that Apple left out the ability to sort photos by name. I have thousands of scanned photos -- some going back to the 1800s -- so sorting by date (which essentially is the scan date) does not make any sense. Using iPhoto, I named the photos with the date in yyyy-mm-dd format and sorted on name to get the photos in the proper sequence. On some of the photos, I could only determine the year, so that's all that was used in the naming. Sorting should be available on a variety for fields in the photos -- both ascending and descending.

It's easier to use 3rd party apps like Photo Manager Pro. You can drag the photos around like the way you do with apps.
https://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/photo-manager-pro/id393858562?mt=8

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- What version of the Operating System.
- Details. As full a description of the problem as you can. For example, if you have a problem with exporting, then explain by describing how you are trying to export, and so on.
- History: Is this going on long? Has anything been installed or deleted? - Are there error messages?
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Sort photos by name

Not sure what I'm missing here.
Basically I had a project full of photos imported from a camera, and also some others added from photostream from my iPhone.
I have now added the photostream in iyts entirity, thinking I would be able to order the photos by name and go through and remove duplicates from the project.
By default, Aperture has added the recently added photos from photostream after all the photos that were already there.
I thought to reorder I just had to Right Click the project name, then select Keep Arranged By > Name.
Bu this isn't doing anything.
I've tried selecting all the photos I want to sort, then trying.
I've tried creating an Album in the Project, but still no joy.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

The Keep arranged by that you get when you right click a project actually has to do with how folders and albums in that project are arranged when you look at them in the Library tab of the inspector. It doe not apply to the images in the project.
To sort the images in the project open a browser on the project and use the sort pulldown.

How do I sort photos by name after newest update?

I downloaded the newest iTunes update last week and now al my photos on my iPad are in chronological order. I prefer my photos in name order because I have specific order I want to view them in. Is there anyway to fix this? It's so frustrating!

I think that this is an issue for a lot of people. This is the third thread I have seen on this topic today. It appears that the latest update to iTunes "Broke" this option and we are stuck with chronologicl order rather then alpha order.
This is why I bought Photo Manager Pro. Well worth the couple of bucks I spent on it. It allows you to create folders, import pictures into the folders and then sort them however you want to and they seem to stay sorted that way even when iTunes or iOS changes.
You might submit a feedback report, http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html to let the software engineers know that this has become a problem for you.

IOS 7 iTunes 11.1.4 sort photos by name, not date

Hy, I'm running iOS 7.0.4 & iTunes 11.1.4.
I have a bunch of pics in folders that are incrementally named (001, 002 etc).
But when exporting them to my ipod touch, they are listed automatically by the date added.
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See:
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That above uses:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photo-manager-pro/id393858562?mt=8

Sorting Photos by Name

I'm a new Mac user. I've migrated all my photos from PC to iPhoto, but now I'm having a terrible time getting the photos to sort properly by title. I have used a naming convention (topic #) where # starts at 1 and goes up sequentially. However, when I sort by title, the photos appear in this order: topic 1, topic 10, topic 11, etc. I resolved this in XP by beginning the numbering at 100. However, I can't figure out how to do this in iPhoto (or Mac in general). Even when I batch rename in iPhoto and append a number, I cannot properly resort by title because photos 10, 11, 12 etc always get placed before photo 2, 3 etc.
Please help, I have thousand of photos and don't want to resort to renaming and reimporting from XP.
And just one more question. Although I am generally very very happy with the switch to Mac, why is it so difficult to batch rename files in Mac OS vs. XP?
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beatlife:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Unfortunately the default alphanumeric sorting order is as you've discovered. In order to get files to sort in the 1-99 order correctly you must pad the first nine numbers with zeros, i.e. 01, 02, 03, etc.
Once in iPhoto the file names cannot be changed (titles for use in iPhoto can) unless you export the files with one of two options which will sequentially rename them (using the Album name will add padded numbers, using the Photos->Batch change and then export with the Use Title option will not pad zeros)
You can either manually pad zeros in those sets that you've renamed that way or, copy your photos from your PC again to your desktop and use R-Name to batch rename them with padded zeros. If a series of file names are XXXXX-1.jpg, etc., you can use R-Name to rename them sequentially to XXXXX-01.jpg or -001.jpg as necessary. It's a pretty slick application. Then import into iPhoto.
If you have to resort to creating a new library from scratch you might consider using iPhoto's alias mode where it does not copy full file into the library but only uses a link and an alias file. You source files are then stored where ever you want (but can't be moved once you create the library). Then you can rename the files with the proper numbering system (if you have more than 99 files in a sequence you need to pad with two zeros, 001, 002, etc.)
The alias mode may not be for you but if you think you might be interested check out these Tutorials.
Bottom line is if the numbering is important it might be worth your while to start over and rename the files with the padded zeros before importing into iPhoto. A little effort up front may save you time later on. You'll have to decide if it's worth it. Good luck.
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I'm from Singapore and my N70 was purchased about a month ago from SingTel, one of three local telcos.
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HowTo Sort Photos by Name on iPad (Windows 7, etc. - For Those Frustrated)

So I was very frustrated as I read manga, etc., sometimes in image file form, and the Photos feature on the iPad is perfect for it. Except, when I uploaded the photos in iTunes, they'd get all out of order, and as it stands, there is NO way I know of to sort them in iTunes or on the iPad directly - they are sorted by date taken, period, unless you have iPhoto, which I don't since I don't have a Mac (and there's no version for PC). On a sidenote, I hope Apple provides some photo sorting and more robust options in future updates as this seems to be a rather silly oversight.
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2.) In the main iPad photo directory you've made, you should see another directory called "iPod Photo Cache" - delete this (it'll regenerate upon next sync with the new order).
3.) Get into your iPad sync folder and then into the subfolder with the individual files you want to sort. CTRL-A to Select All, then once selected, right click, select Properties, and then the Details tab.
4.) Click "Remove Properties and Personal Information" at the bottom. A new window should pop up. Click the radio button for "Remove the following properties from this file:" and then check the "Date taken" box. Alternatively, you can hit "Select All" if none of the information is important to you (what I did). Click "OK" to make that window disappear, then "OK" to close out Properties and accept the changes.
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Unfortunately it wasn't this straightforward for me! The above method seemed to work initially on some photo folders but then I found that it didn't on others. I've spent quite a few hours today investigating and experimenting. The iPad definitely sorts on the Windows file attribute "Date Taken" - the difficulty is changing this attribute using batch processing of several files at once. My EXIF metadata date fields are correct so I would like to be able to update the Date Taken file attribute from EXIF data for lots of photo files in one go. No-one seems to have written a program specifically for this task. I have tried various popular EXIF utilities and have only managed to do it with manual intervention on individual files which is too laborious for all my photos. It doesn't help that when you try and manually edit this Date Taken property for an individual file in Windows you can only change the date, not the time.
In my opinion, the real solution is for Apple to offer us a choice of the photo sort order in ITunes. My preference would be filename, perhaps with options to choose the Date Taken attribute, file timestamp or date modified filestamp (EXIF date fields as well is probably asking a bit too much!)

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In the new photos app, it doesn't appear that you can:
1) Display the name of the photos;
2) Batch change file names;
3) Sort images by file name (instead of date).
Is this true?
Is there a work around?
(Apple, if this functionality isn't present, please include in a future update.)

1. You can, but need to mouseover the image to see the title
2. True
3. True, but be aware that filename and 'name of the photo' are not the same thing
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html is the place for feature requests and feedback

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Hi have had problems with photo's and films going onto a 2010 Apple Classic mp3. Have managed to sort photo's but the films won't copy and comes up with message videos not copied cannot be played on this ipod

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Self explanatory.
You could try creating an iPod version of the films.
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