Renaming Photos Advice Not Effective

I've gone over the posts on this topic until I can't think straight. Old Toad told someone (a few people, actually) that to rename photos in iPhoto, you must first make a new folder on the desktop, move the photos to it, change the name, then move it back to iPhoto with the new name. I tried that; however, when I began the move, MacBook changed my application from iPhoto to Finder. Old Toad also said that if the photos are changed in Finder, they won't be recognizable to iPhoto and will disappear. If MacBook is going to be changing me to Finder just through the act of moving the photos from iPhoto to something else, how does one follow this advice?
To be fair to you, I'm a new user of Apple, and I don't yet subscribe to the idea that the Mac is THE way of finding ease in home computing. iPhoto is the best example I can think of to demonstrate that it just plain ain't.
newitchway

You don't have to move them to your PC to rename them. For the photos that are already in your library what you can do is....rename right within iPhoto by giving them titles. You will have to give each photo a distinctive title so they all have different titles. This is one reason why iPhoto does not change the name of the photo in the Finder. What if you named two photos taken on the same day "John". You can't have two files in the same folder with the same name. That is why titles you give in iPhoto, stay within iPhoto and do not change in the Finder.
Anyway, getting back to what you want to do...after you rename them in iPhoto, then share>export each roll to a new folder on the desktop. In the export window, choose "title" as the naming scheme. Once all rolls are exported to their respective folders one the desktop, close iPhoto.
Now navigate to the Pictures folder and rename the iPhoto Library folder to "iPhoto Library_old"
Launch iPhoto and it will ask you to "create" or "choose" and iPhoto library to open.
Hit "create"
Name the new library
Once the new library is open, drag your folders on the desktop one at a time into an open iPhoto Library viewing window.
Once all the folders are imported you will now have the photos having the same name in the finder that they will have within iPhoto.
You can delete the old library and all the folders on the desktop now.
In the future, use Image Capture to download your images to the Pictures folder. Put them in a dated folder and then rename the photos. Remember you can't give two photos the same name. Once the photos are renamed then you can import that folder into iPhoto. Once imported, you can then delete the folder or save it to burn for backup.
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I have to tell you though, I think that this a lot of work for something that really doesn't need to be done. I find it to time consuming to rename photos. I always keep the name given from the camera. I don't even title them in iPhoto. I do give all my photos keywords to make it easy to find the photos I want.

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