Is it possible to sort images by file name?

it is not an oversigt - it is intentional since when using Photos it totally replaces the finder for your photos and file names anr not needed

in the user tips there are user scripts to set the title to the file name - Photos for Mac - and you can sort albums by title

LN

Sort by filename is not an option in Photos. Albums and smart albums you defined yourself can be sorted by the tittle, the capture date, or manually.

The sorting in the predefined albums is automatic:

• The "Photos" view with moments and collections is sorted by capture date and the location.
• The "All Photos" view is sorted by the date of the import session.
• Other predefined smart albums are sorted by the capture date.

You can see the current, predefined sort order, if it is greyed out in the "View >Sort" menu.

As a work-around:

1. If you need to want the photos to be sorted by the filename, copy the filename to the title field. Then create a smart album of the items and sort them by the title. we posted a user tip to copy the filename to the title field for selected photos: Script: Changing the Title to the Filename without Extension
   or: Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension
2. Or view your Photos Library in Power Photos. This versatile tool lets you browse photos as a list or thumbnail while viewing more metadata below the thumbnails or shown as list with selected columns and sorted by the columns.

You can do a lot with the free trial: Download PowerPhotos here: Fat Cat Software – PowerPhotos

You are right, that Photos replaces the Finder and we do not need the Finder to access the image files, but the filenames can also carry metadata about the photos. They are the unique tag assigned by the camera to keep them apart. People are adding text to the filename as a caption, before importing the photos. Aperture and iPhoto used to add the filename as a default title, if no other title had been assigned, so we could refer to the photo by some name.

😁 I still want to see the filenames, because the information in the filename is important for me for my projects. I want to be able to see if I am looking at the JPEG or the TIFF version, when I browse the photos, if it is the red channel or the blue channel of a multisensor image, and other interesting data in the filename. That is why I went to the trouble to write a script to copy the filenames to the titles.

The developers are trying to suppress the filenames - they try to omit them wherever possible. Probably because they contain numbers and are looking like unnecessary technical details. As long as the filename has not been assigned to the title field it will not even be shown below the thumbnails. We have to make the developers understand that filenames are an essential unique identifier for a photo and carry important information that even an amateur wants to be able to access easily, not only the professional users.

You may want to send feedback to Apple with a feature request and report a usability problem:

Feedback - Photos - Apple

Yes it used to - it no longer does -- I used to be able to wear a 32" waist but that has nothing to do with today either

LN