How can you PERMANENTLY change a photo title?

I know how to change the title of my photos in iPhoto (by clicking on the title of the image or changing it in the information panel). But when I copy the image to another place--for example, dragging it to my desktop or onto a USB stick--the original title, the one with just numbers, appears and the new title is lost. If I change the title on the icon of the desktop image and then re-import it into iPhoto, I get the new title, but there must be an easier way than moving all my photos to my desktop and then moving them back into iPhoto and erasing the original iPhoto photos.

The trick is not to drag it to the desktop, but instead, use the File -> Export command. In the resulting dialogue set the Kind: to jpeg and then tick the box at 'Title and Keywords' and then complete the export. iPhoto will make a copy of your pic with the title as filename, including any description and keywords you may have added.
By way of explanation: iPhoto preserves your Original file, no matter what. Changing the filename is a change to the file and would require a modified version. Obviously this would be very expensive in terms of Hard Drive space, so iPhoto does not rename the file. Further, filenames are irrelevant in iPhoto as cameras can produce hundreds of files with the same name. SO iPhoto does not rely on them as an identifier.
Alternatively, some folks rename their file prior to importing to iPhoto. To do tthis use Image capture (in your Apps folder) to move the pics to a folder on the desktop then use a batch file renaming utility such as Name Mangler to rename the files and then import to iPhoto.
Regards
TD

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