Q: How do I organize the sidebar in Photos?
In iPhoto my albums were always arranged in chronological order from oldest to newest. I found this to be very useful. Now in Photos the albums are just randomly arranged and therefore very hard to locate. The only option I can find is an alphabetic arrangement which I don't find very useful. How can I again arrange the albums in the sidebar in alphabetical order? Note the same random arrangement seems to be taking place in the main screen albums pane, but I find it much quicker and efficient to scroll through a list than have to page down through all the pictures.
Thanks!
Lance
iMac 1.83, Mac OS X (10.6), ibook G4 1.43, OS X (10.4.11)
Posted on Dec 20, 2015 6:51 AM
Which version of Photos do you have?
In Photos 1.3 in MacOS X 10.11.2 El Capitan you can ctrl click a folder with albums inside in the sidebar and have the sorting options:
The sidebar is much more manageable if you group related albums in folders. This way you can collapse subfolders and get many albums out of the way with one click. I use folders for groups of ten years of albums and inside a folder for each year.
Posted on Dec 20, 2015 7:03 AM



