Thierry Levenq
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Q: Major functionality missing in Photos

Has anyone managed to sort photos with a title rather than the date. This is a great function in iPhoto but it has shamefully disappeared in Photos and it prevents to do any sort of organisation or editing

imac, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jun 7, 2016 4:58 PM

by léonie,Apple recommended
léonie léonie
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A:

Which Photos version are you using?  Sorting by title has been added to Photos with the El Capitan upgrade.

You can sort the photos in any album you crete yourself by title. The predefined albums like "All Photos" have a fixed sort order.

 

Ctrl-click the album, select "Sort > Keep sorted by Title".

 

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Posted on Jun 8, 2016 1:11 AM

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Q: Major functionality missing in Photos

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  • by léonie,Apple recommended

    léonie léonie Jun 8, 2016 1:11 AM in response to Thierry Levenq
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    Jun 8, 2016 1:11 AM in response to Thierry Levenq

    Which Photos version are you using?  Sorting by title has been added to Photos with the El Capitan upgrade.

    You can sort the photos in any album you crete yourself by title. The predefined albums like "All Photos" have a fixed sort order.

     

    Ctrl-click the album, select "Sort > Keep sorted by Title".

     

    Screen Shot 2016-06-08 at 02.09.41GMT.png

  • by LarryHN,Helpful

    LarryHN LarryHN Jun 8, 2016 1:11 AM in response to Thierry Levenq
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    Jun 8, 2016 1:11 AM in response to Thierry Levenq

    If you are up to date (El Captain OS X 10.11.5 and Photos 1.5) which you should always be if you want current features then you have had this in albums for months - in every user album photos can be sorted by date ascending or descending or by title

     

    LN

     

    PS you also need ot get your profile up to date - I doubt tha tyou still are using OS X 10.5.7 as you state

  • by Rysz,

    Rysz Rysz Jun 8, 2016 10:39 AM in response to Thierry Levenq
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    Jun 8, 2016 10:39 AM in response to Thierry Levenq

    For general knowledge, Photos User / Help guide:

    https://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.0/?lang=en

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Jun 8, 2016 11:15 AM in response to Thierry Levenq
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    Jun 8, 2016 11:15 AM in response to Thierry Levenq

    This user tip may help: Photos 1.5 vs iPhoto 9.6.1:  Features and Capabilities

     

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  • by winkle33,

    winkle33 winkle33 Sep 1, 2016 10:54 PM in response to léonie
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    Sep 1, 2016 10:54 PM in response to léonie

    Thanks for your answer -it worked. 

    I have been sorting by title right along with Photos 1.5 and El Capitan 10.11.6 (and earlier versions) making many albums and always sorting all my photos by title. 

    All of a sudden my latest album would not sort by title no matter what I did.  Up until today, I have always done it by using tool bar at top -View - sort by title.  Your solution of Ctl-click on the actual album name on the sidebar and selecting sort by title there worked. 

    What goes on at Apple where something like this suddenly changes and I have to Ctl click?? - how would anyone every know this without checking this community??

    I closed Photos, rebooted and renamed photos - wasted a good hour for no reason.  Sometimes I could just scream!!

     

    But thanks for your solution!  Now I can get back to my photo project.

    photo sort.jpg