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Q: how do i sort albums by date in the new photos app?

so my iphoto events get converted into albums. great! but how do i sort them date wise (depending on the oldest photo in an album (like it used to be in iPhoto)?

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), 13 inch, i5, 256 GB SSD, 2013

Posted on Apr 9, 2015 2:03 AM

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Q: how do i sort albums by date in the new photos app?

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 9, 2015 7:33 AM in response to AceNeerav
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    Apr 9, 2015 7:33 AM in response to AceNeerav

    You can't sort albums by date, only by name or manually.

     

    If you prefix the album name with a date, the sorting by name will take care of that, for example, name the albums like "2015 -04-Birthday" or similar.

  • by dalek2000,

    dalek2000 dalek2000 Apr 9, 2015 12:09 PM in response to léonie
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    Apr 9, 2015 12:09 PM in response to léonie

    this is ridiculous! I have over 300 albums imported from iPhoto, surely Apple doesn't expect me to manually rename every one. This app is a big improvement, but because of this one missing feature it is unusable to me. Even worse, because they have now pulled the 9.6.1 iPhoto update, I can't even carry on using that

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 9, 2015 12:11 PM in response to dalek2000
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    Apr 9, 2015 12:11 PM in response to dalek2000

    Tell Apple what additional features you want in Photos via both http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html and http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html  since they don't have a feedback page for Photos as yet.

     

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  • by AceNeerav,

    AceNeerav AceNeerav Apr 9, 2015 12:50 PM in response to Old Toad
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    Apr 9, 2015 12:50 PM in response to Old Toad

    A few more shortcomings...

    • No way to NOT import photo streams into moments And collections.
    • No way to prevent from being deleted photos from collections,that are automatically imported from photo stream, when photo stream is deleted.
    • when editing photos with the editing tools, if i delete a photo, it exits out of the editing mode. When i work with my vacation photos, i have to practically delete every alternate photo. This is a bit of a pain.
    • Right clicking on photos lacks the 'set on desktop' option.
    • Thumbnails of some photos are rotated 90 or 180 degrees (like they were on iphoto) even while opening the photo has the correct orientation. Repairing thumbnails on iphoto and repairing the library on Photos app doesnt work!
    • No progress indicator on importing or exporting large amount of photos, from and to finder.
    • Cant search photos with camera names like in iphoto. Have to make a smart album for that.
    • No option to add photos to existing albums. You have to select 'new album' and then select an existing album from the drop down list.
    • opinion... Icloud photo library is pretty useless. With newer ios and os x versions requiring frequent clean installs (especially with newer major releases) downloading a 30 gb library would be a pain! And it also requires a massive 200 GB icloud storage upgrade! i have free gbs even in my 20gb plan. so thats a big money waster for me!
  • by Rasti,

    Rasti Rasti Apr 9, 2015 3:16 PM in response to dalek2000
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    Apr 9, 2015 3:16 PM in response to dalek2000

    I have to agree with Dalek2000, this is absolutely ridiculous. There is simply no point in importing iPhoto events into the Photos app, if the orignal sorting gets lost.

     

    Until Apple fixes that (I don't think it is a missing feature, it is a bug - Photos is presented to us as an iPhoto replacement) I have no choice but to continue using iPhotos. Fortunately, I have all my photos in folders, so if iPhoto stops working one day, it is not a big deal. Maybe then I will explore the options in Photoshop Elements...

  • by William Lloyd,

    William Lloyd William Lloyd Apr 9, 2015 3:19 PM in response to dalek2000
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    Apr 9, 2015 3:19 PM in response to dalek2000

    You can re-install the 9.6.1 update, it's in the "purchased" are of the Mac App Store, and you can always re-install iPhoto.

     

    That said... Over 300 iPhoto albums. It may be worth experimenting a bit with Photos built in functionality. It's quite likely there are better ways to organize your photos and get to the photos you want more quickly than having hundreds of albums.

  • by AceNeerav,

    AceNeerav AceNeerav Apr 9, 2015 5:01 PM in response to William Lloyd
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    Apr 9, 2015 5:01 PM in response to William Lloyd

    William LloydEvents was the best way to organise photos.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 9, 2015 5:18 PM in response to William Lloyd
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    Apr 9, 2015 5:18 PM in response to William Lloyd
    You can re-install the 9.6.1 update, it's in the "purchased" are of the Mac App Store, and you can always re-install iPhoto.

    Since the release of 10.10.3 and Photos iPhoto 9.6.1 is no longer available at the App Store.  A user posted that when they talked to Customer Support he was told that it would be made available sometime soon.  We'll just have to wait and see.

  • by Tom Perkins,

    Tom Perkins Tom Perkins Apr 9, 2015 8:11 PM in response to dalek2000
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    Apr 9, 2015 8:11 PM in response to dalek2000

    I just went through the situation of not finding iPhoto 9.6.1 in the App Store.  Working with Applecare, the solution was to (a) delete the iPhoto app, (b) restart my iMac, (c) go to the App store and click on Purchases, and (d) reinstall iPhoto.  In my case, for some reason, iPhoto was hidden from my purchases.  Go to Store > View My Account, and go to Manage for Hidden Purchases, where you can unhide iPhoto.  Once I did that, things seemed to work okay.

  • by dalek2000,

    dalek2000 dalek2000 Apr 10, 2015 2:59 AM in response to Tom Perkins
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    Apr 10, 2015 2:59 AM in response to Tom Perkins

    cheers for that Tom, I've just managed to get iPhoto back thanks to your advise.

     

    As William Lloyd says though, i would much prefer to use the new app if possible as iPhoto is quite sluggish with a library that large. Lets hope its just an oversight that's fixed soon.

  • by AceNeerav,

    AceNeerav AceNeerav Apr 10, 2015 4:48 AM in response to AceNeerav
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    Apr 10, 2015 4:48 AM in response to AceNeerav

    The photos app is definitely very robust, clean and simple. the editing tools are also better.

     

    anyone noticed it automatically devices which editing tools are necessary for a given photo? pretty good.

     

    i am definitely not moving back to iphoto. even deleted the iphoto library.

  • by Rasti,

    Rasti Rasti Apr 10, 2015 5:27 AM in response to William Lloyd
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    Apr 10, 2015 5:27 AM in response to William Lloyd

    I think it depends on what you use the application for. For the casual iPhone snapshooter, it is probably a great tool.

     

    However I use a DSLR. I do not have it always with me, I carry it with me to certain "events" (a family reunion, a weekend trip, a summer vacation). I take a lot of pictures at one event, throw most of them away, and process the rest. All of that I do in Adobe Lightroom. iPhoto for me is just a nice tool for viewing and presenting the results, not more.

     

    Even worse, I might have overlapping Events, e.g. a collection of pictures of my kids taken during summer, and another collection taken at a specific event, say, a birthday party. So the timeline does not work for me at all.

     

    With iPhoto I could sort all these collections by date and it was very easy to find them. Now I have to sort them manually, or rename them from

    "My grandmother celebrates her 95th birthday" to "2015-2-6 - My grandmother celebrates her 95th birthday"? Hm.

  • by Marion Dobbs,

    Marion Dobbs Marion Dobbs Apr 11, 2015 11:41 AM in response to Tom Perkins
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    Apr 11, 2015 11:41 AM in response to Tom Perkins

    This was enormously helpful to me. I am stunned by the missing features in Photos and was thinking of maybe jumping off a bridge if I couldn't get back to iPhoto. Photos is clearly geared toward the casual user who wants to share selfies. I have 28,000 photos in one of my libraries, and many have required heavy duty editing for the purpose of publishing...and lots of other things that Photos doesn't offer. Now I seem to have iPhoto back again, and I'll use it long enough to learn some new software and make a transition to it. Thank you, Tom!
    P.S. I did lose my keyword file, bummer, but not so bad as losing iPhoto entirely.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 11, 2015 1:40 PM in response to Marion Dobbs
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    Apr 11, 2015 1:40 PM in response to Marion Dobbs
    P.S. I did lose my keyword file, bummer, but not so bad as losing iPhoto entirely.

    Here's how to preserve your keywords in the future.  Select a photo to be used as a "mule" for your keywords and add every keyword to it. When the library is merged, converted to another version that mule will carry over all your keywords. 

     

    You can also export the mule file as jpeg with the two checkboxes checked in the Export window so you'll have an external copy of the file with all of the keywords embedded in it.

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