Opening i photo folder in Photoshop

Help ! Im a little confused as to why when choosing i photo library in photoshp all of the folders are identified by numbers only ..why dont they show the names of the folders i have labled in i photo
ibook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

You iPhoto albums and folders are virtual constructions; that is, they do not exist on the hard disc. What do exist are the folders, based on the Film Rolls created when you import. You can edit the names of the Film Rolls and reorganize them, if you wish. But you must do this from within iPhoto, not the Finder.
It is advised that you do not tamper with the items inside the iPhoto Library folder from within the Finder. Doing so can lead you to damage your library. Photos inside iPhoto need to be accessed from within iPhoto. By accessing them from Photoshop, your edited versions will not be recognized inside iPhoto.
You can set Photoshop as your external editor in iPhoto's Preferences. To edit a photo, double-click on its thumbnail in the iPhoto window. It will open in Photoshop. When finished editing do a simple Save (not Save As) using the same file name and extension. This will save the edited version back to iPhoto, and the thumbnail will update to reflect the edits.
The exception to that rule is if your edits cause Photoshop to create a layered .psd file. To save back to iPhoto, you can flatten the image and force Photoshop to save as a jpeg. Or, to keep the layers, Save As to a location OUTside the iPhoto Library folder, and import it in to iPhoto. In this case, the edited version would be a new original, not linked to the unedited photo.
BTW, you can still use iPhoto to edit a photo by clicking on the Full-Screen Edit Mode button.

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