My Photoshop Elements moved my pix from iPhoto but the picture names have been lost???

I installed a copy of Photoshop Elements 12 yesterday. I had been using iPhoto and had literally hundreds of pictures, each with an aphpa-numeric names. I imported the photos from IPhoto into Elements 12, but there are no longer identifying names on any picture. Where are the names? There is a column of numeric file names in [Organizer] along the left sides - which mean nothing to me. I have tried every button I could find and searched the Photoshop Elements for Dummies for a possible solution. I asked two friends familiar with full blown Photoshop and they are perplexed. So am I. Has anybody any useful suggestions? Thank you

If you used the "from iPhoto" command, you made duplicates of your iphoto library photos. Just delete them and then decide how you want to proceed. "From iPhoto" is to be used if you decide you want to use the elements organizer exclusively and not iphoto anymore, but you don't have to do that. You can make a small test catalog with just some photos from iphoto, or you can set up PSE as your external editor from iphoto, or you can export photos from iphoto to the desktop, edit them in PSE and then reimport them back to iphoto as new images.
Which would you like to try?

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