In PHOTOS how to expoert and import photos in sequence?

Michael_CH wrote:

hello Leonie, so first thank you, you seem more competent than the apple support....

I applied this on a mac with 20k photos and it worked but one problem remains....

The sorting is now going like 1, 10, 100, 101 to 109, 20, etc

An idea? I guess the script can be adapted to (probably add zeros in front of nor, eg, 001, 002, etc)

Many thx !

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regards,

Michael

Michael, instead of batch exporting with sequential filenames you could prefix the titles in the album with padded numbers. Then export with the title as the filename.

When you export edited versions from Photos, they will keep the titles, and you can sort them by the title after reimporting.

Here is a script by Old Toad: Batch Change Title to Text w/Padded Seque… - Apple Community

For the photos in an album to be sorted the same in the Finder they should be sequentially titled as muguy mentioned.

That can be done several ways:

1 - using the Album method from the export per muguy.

2 - using sequential from the export window:

There's a 3rd way. You can arrange the photos in an album the way you want them and retitle them with this AppleScripts from users:

Batch Change Title to Text w/Padded Sequential Numbers

Batch Change Title to Capture Date-Description-Padded Sequential Numbers

Then export the photos using the Title as the new file name. That will put them in the same order as you had them in the album.

The scripts compiled as an applications can be downloaded from this tutorial site:  P01 - Applescripts from Photos’ User Tips Compiled as Applications  

Michael_CH wrote: ... (3 filter possible, name, date up, date down and order in name sequence does not work).

It would have worked in Photos 4 on Mojave, but since then the filename will no longer be used as the default title, when sorting the photos (Sorting Albums by Title in Photos - Chang… - Apple Community). You would have to copy the filename to the title field in the Info.

You could try to use an Apple Script to batch copy the filename stored the title.

• Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the filenames with extension - Apple Community
• Script: Batch Change the Title of a Photo to the Filename Followed by the Existing Title

There is a new solution, I think. Photos Workbench from Houdah Software has a clever batch title routine that now supports custom ordering in Photos. It looks like this:

My example would sort by date, but you can put the counter first. The counter can have from 1 to 5 places.

For "Method" you can also find and replace text in titles. Really useful!

The sorting is now going like 1, 10, 100, 101 to 109, 20, etc

Right-- it sorts alphabetically, but the sequencing uses numbers of different lengths instead of using 001, 002... 014 ... 123, etc. I have fixed this, outside of Photos, with GraphicConverter which has a batch renaming function. But it was still tedious, adding 00 to the first 9, and adding 0 to the second 100, so they all had 3 digit numbers. I could then use GraphicConverter to quickly copy all the file names to the titles. But I haven't figured out anything better.

Not by default, no. However, if you manipulate the metadata to match the file name, they can then be sorted by title. If you sync using iCloud, your albums will align.

Michael_CH wrote:

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Comment for Apple: So by Apple I need "to program" to have Photos (between apple devices) in order and I need to pay super premium Apple prices for this???? I find this absolutely crazy!

For the time being you could also simply write the numbers sequence numbers into the title of the photo.

And send feedback to Apple, as muguy suggested. Apple keeps improving Photos, and adding requested feature, albeit it may take a while until frequently requested features will be added. The very first version of Photos did not even allow us to sort the photos in the albums by the title or to add location markers.

As léonie has pointed out (here or somewhere else?) Photos, apparently by willful neglect, does not support manually ordering in albums. You can do it, but you can't do all the things that go with it, and you have the feeling the makers are frowning at you while you do it.

When you export, select file naming, sequential to keep your library photos in whatever order you made

If you're looking for features that are not part of the delivered app, yes. Leave feedback at apple.com/feedback. You may also want to investigate more robust photo library software if you need options beyond those that work for most people.