TWO problems with "Organizer" -- How to solve?

Question

I am running PSE-4 on a WIN-XT PC.
I upgraded a little while back from PSE-3 and had, so far, only worked with the Editor. (BTW, it's nice to see that Adobe finally fixed some very nasty bugs that plagged PSE-3 Editor, like the "jumping image, etc., as well as an improved speed.)
I needed (and still need) to convert 17 pix that are in a directory on their own into High-Quality "12" JPG files. Nothing should be simpler...
Well, first thing I realized is that, apparently, I can NOT do that in PSE-4's Editor. I had to go to the "Organizer" to try that. (Or am I missing something here?) And that's how I bumped into two crazy problems...
PROBLEM #1:
From the 17 PSD files (all of them contain several layers), only 12 did show up as Thumnails in the central pane.
Why is that?
Where did the 5 missing ones get stuck?
HOW can I get ALL 17 files to show up in the thumbnail pane so that I can select them for a "batch-conversion" to JPG?
PROBLEM #2:
While in "Organizer", all I see below each thumbnail is a date! So, if I have a shoot of, say, 100 pix on a same day, I end up with 100 pix having the same "name" -- useless and insane! (IF I wanted ALL the pix shot on a given date/day, I would only want these specific pix show up in the pane, EACH with its own specific name!)
I checked the various "defaults" that may effect the results and they seem OK. However, given the incredible lack of intuitiveness (!)this "Organizer" module has, I may have missed something somewhere or plain not figured out a twist somewhere to make the files' actual NAME show up under ech thumbnail.
Any suggestion(s) to make these file NAMES appear under each thumbnail?
THANKS!
Duke

Answer 1

Barb,
Problem #2:
You guessed right -- BINGO... and a big THANKS!
Increasing the size of the thumbnails did the trick.. the Names appeared below the Dates.
(I still am shocked that Adobe would leave such a "shortcoming" in that program. From a programming point of view, there are at least two easy ways to go around the "small space" problem for the fields below thumbnails having a small size... I guess we all will have to wait a couple more releases of that program to see that quirk fixed.)
Ward,
Problem #1:
No luck here. Increasing the thumbnails to the max (or anywhere inbetween) did make the 5 missing file appear.
So, I made one more File>Get photos>From file folder. Same results.
So, I looked at the list of "files/items that were NOT imported". Interstingly enaough, ALL 17 files were listed!
Now, for ALL of them, the "Reason" given "why" these 17 files/items weren't imported is that, according to "Organizer", "Files already exist in the catalog". And that sent me thinking about some weird possibilities...
Somehow, that catalog has a lot of files that, from what I could recognized and figure out, were "acquired" with the "Organizer" of PSE-3. What I see in the pane where the thumbnails are is a succession of directories with some of their pictures displayed as thumbnails. And now I am wondering:
Could it be that "Organizer" is so conceived that it doesn't accept/put a same file TWICE in the "Catalog"?
(I'll go -- slowly -- through the hundreds of pix in that Catalog to see IF I can spot these exact same five pix in some other directory that has already been acquired)
IF the answer turns out to be "yes, a file can only be ONCE in a catalog, no matter in what directory", then I probably will be going back to IrfanView to shuffle and convert pictures on ma system. Its logic and straightforwardness for dealing with files are a model of common sense.
Do you know IF "Organizer" has such a 'rule' that a file can only be once in a catalog?
From what I can see so far, I'll batch-convert the 12 files that show up as thumbnails in "Organizer" and singly convert the 5 others in "Editor".
Thanks for the feedback!
Duke