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I create albums for events and keep them in chronological order (newest at top). All of a sudden the titles on left column started shifting and now I have 5 year old albums near the top. They're basically all out of order. I didn't do anything except create a new album for tonight's photos. HELP!
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15
Hi - I assume you mean the order of albums in the sidebar, and not the photos in the album?
Photos is not good at retaining the order of albums at the top level of the sidebar. So to fix, you can put the albums into a folder. Then it is possible to sort the folder by age, or name. (see the screenshot). If you want to customise the order, put a number in front of the name - eg 01, 02 etc, and use sort by name.
You can create a folder in the same way as an album (with the + symbol) - but select folder instead of album.
Hi - I assume you mean the order of albums in the sidebar, and not the photos in the album?
Photos is not good at retaining the order of albums at the top level of the sidebar. So to fix, you can put the albums into a folder. Then it is possible to sort the folder by age, or name. (see the screenshot). If you want to customise the order, put a number in front of the name - eg 01, 02 etc, and use sort by name.
You can create a folder in the same way as an album (with the + symbol) - but select folder instead of album.
I just ran a test with Photos 5 and I had to do a resort of the folder to get the album order to change. But it did change, just not by itself. I didn't do a reboot to see if that triggered the resort.
Be advised that if you add a photo to one of the albums its capture date may change the albums position in the sorting order unless the albums are sorted by title.
I tested that on mine - and at least on the album I tried it on there was no change in the album order based on adding a photo.
Photo Albums on Mac out of order
