Iphoto sort by title problem

I am having an issue with iphoto 09' sort by title. Hopefully my explanation make sense. The titles of the photos are Thanksgiving 1, Thanksgiving 2, Thanksgiving 3 and on in the same manner. What is strange is that it is sorting them in the following order: Thanksgiving 1, Thanksgiving 10, Thanksgiving 11, 12, ......19, then to Thanksgiving 2, Thanksgiving 20, 21, 22,.....29, Thanksgiving 30 etc. You would think it would sort them in the same way we count, but for some reason it isn't. Any ideas for how I can fix this sorting problem?
Thanks!

Use leading zeros: 001, 002, 003... 010, 011 etc.
Regards
TD

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rtpeters:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. First, you've posted in the iPhoto 08 forum and may not get the responses you'd would in the iPhoto 6 forum.
As far as numbering is concerned that's a camera issue an I don't know of any way to set a start point in any camera. FWIW here's how I handle file naming:
1 - I upload to a folder on the desktop.
2 - date and name the folder: 03/08/08-Temecula Rod Show. This will give me an event with the same title when imported.
3 - I use R-Name to batch rename the files with the date taken and a brief description: 2008-03-08-TemRodShow-01.jpg.
4 - import the folder.
That avoids problems down the line with duplicate file names during exporting. It also gives me excellent chronological sorting and searching.
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IPhoto does NOT sort 'By title'. Please advise

In the left pane Library-Photo view is selected.
In the menu "View->Sort Photos->By Title" is selected.
However, iPhoto sorts photos by date, not by title.
Any advise?
I use 10.8 OS and 9.3.2 iPhoto.

@Old Toad,
I am already sorting Events by Title unter 'Events' section. I wanted to have events as it as a list, not as thumbnails.
That is why I was trying to sort them in 'Photos' section, where they are shown as Text.
I have many events. And I wanted to structure them well, if i were to switch to iPhoto. As I see now, iPhoto does not have many useful library management features. So I am going to stick to Lightroom and Bridge (though I don't need so much editing power).
@Terence Devlin,
I checked Aperture on my friend's computer (it *****, that apple is not giving trial versions).
It does not offer exactly what I was looking for.
But the Projects (aka 'Events' in iPhoto) can be sorted and put in folders (in the left panel). And it is displayed as a list (not thumbnails). This can't be done with iPhoto.
Morover, the Aperture has a much better search by keywords selection than iPhoto.
To pay 80 USD to try using Aperture. I really don't know. If there were a trial available....
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Hi,
I have been attempting to email photos from iPhoto with the title that i have given the photo (not just the random one assigned by my camera). However, whenever i select a photo and share it via email it always assigns the original title like p111110. instead of holidayphoto. for example. This occurs whether title and comment boxes are ticked or not. Does anyone have any idea as i would like to send out photos with informative titles so my friends have a clue what they are looking at.
Thanks in advance

You're confusing the Title with the Filename. They are not the same thing. The title is an entry in the IPTC metadata that is understood by any photo app on any system. If you want to use the Title as a filename then file -> Export and check out the option to use the Title as a filename in the resulting dialogue.
Regards
TD

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