Sort by name view in PSE 9 Mac Organizer?

Is there an option or workaround for the Organizer to sort and display by the file name in the Organizer included in Photoshop Elements for Mac version 9? I would appreciate any tips!

Thanks for voicing your displeasure with Adobe over Mac (and I assume Windows) version 9 organizer not being able to sort by file name. I agree that it is an unacceptable omission, especially since almost every editor and organizer has this feature including Adobe's Bridge that came with PhotoShop Elements 6 for Mac.
I'm still trying to find the "make a suggestion" form to voice the same displeasure. Windows, and to a lesser extent the Mac OS, has a serious issue in my opinion in that almost any editing, copying, etc. changes at least the file modification date if not the creation date. The EXIF date might stay the same but I've not yet found how to copy that to the creation date in edited PSE9 files. Of course, the movies don't have an EXIF code to use.
My solution to this shortcoming is to first do a simple import from the camera into a computer folder and then immediately rename the photos and videos to a file name that includes the date and time from the creation date. The format I use is --YYMMDD HHMM ### Text-- where the time is 24 hour clock, the ### is the last three digits of the file name the camera created (useful for matching with the original camera file and also differentiates rapid snap photos with the same creation time), and short event text tacked on the end (examples: 101125 1548 642 Oak Ridge.mov & 101125 2035 656 Oak Ridge.jpg). I can now sort the photos and video together in preferred true chronological order regardless of how much the file dates change due to editing. I typically want to combine items from multiple cameras that may have been modified by different editors on different dates into a single slideshow or movie that is sorted automatically by file name into chronological order (but nice to have manual reordering override on selected items when desired). I use and recommend "A Better Finder Rename 8" software to rename the files quickly after import. This software has simple multi-step actions that can be set up once to do the renaming.
Of course all this scheming is null and void if you CAN'T SORT BY FILE NAME!!
I think my goals are simple and typical, but my decades long search for photo and video editors that do what I want has not ended yet. I was hoping that PSE9/PRE9 might be that solution but maybe not if they won't let me sort by file name. The program that comes the closest is Picasa but it has too many bugs and limitations to be the final solution.
Mac's iPhoto/iMovie are nice and I've used them extensively but their integration of photos and video requires too many manual steps.
So what is it I want? I'm shooting intermixed photos and video mostly on cameras that have HD video capability. I want to import them, do some simple editing, add some titles or captions and occasionally voice annotations, and throw in a little background music at low levels (need good ducking for the video). I'd like to do this all in one editor (or organizer?) that can output (keeping them in chronological order by file name) to movies, DVDs, web posting, prints, and export edited photos for archive. PIcasa can do this and despite its current issues and limitations should be a model of photo/video/production integration for all editors in my opinion.
What I don't want--or need--is the fancy organizers that seem to be the rage these days. There may be a few people that must be able to instantly find and pull up uncle Charlie with a toothache from 30 years ago. I am not that person. I don't want to build and maintain a cross-indexed library of every video and photo I ever took. I don't need to apply automatic face recognition to every photo I ever took just because I can. For me, the organizer and editors are temporary holding places until I can generate the output products (edited movies, slideshows, edited photos, web posting, prints). Once these products are created and archived to off-line storage, the photos and videos will be deleted from the computer and the organizer database. I rarely have time or inclination to use old archived material. My off-line archives are stored as simple folders by year with subfolders by date with a short subject in the folder and file name. Modern photo browsers allow me to quickly enough find what I want with that stored information to meet my occasional needs.

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