In PHOTOS how to expoert and import photos in sequence?

Hello,

I am getting more and more disappointed by apple mainly around PHOTOS & iCloud, so many things do not work .... it is crazy).

I try to do something very basic:

1. Export (from MAC A) an album in sequence (the album is defined in a manual sequence)

2. Import that album in another MAC B (PHOTOS) and display it in the same sequence as the original

Of course I export in sequence (pic 1, 2, 3, 4, etc) but when I import it goes total out of sequence and given I have a lot of albums I see there is no apparent logic, one display 1,2,3 and then 656, 657, and then 11 etc. The other album something totally different.

Also it is not the classical issue of 1, 10, 11….19, 2, 20, 21 etc

If someone has an idea it would be great !

Seems that Apple can't event do this....

thx

Regards,

Michael

iPad mini 4, iPadOS 15

Posted on Dec 2, 2022 1:55 AM

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léonie

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Posted on Dec 3, 2022 8:34 AM

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 !

...

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

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