moving photos within an album

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moving photos within an album

I have a regular album (not a Smart Album) in Photos, Vers. 7, macOS Monterey, which contains several hundred photos. I am moving the photos around in the album to change the order in which they appear. I select a photo to move and when I start dragging it up towards the top of the window I expect that the window will scroll so that I can continue dragging the photo farther up in the album. The window does not scroll. I know that when you drag objects around in other Mac apps the window always scrolls. Why isn't this happening in Photos?

iMac 24″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Feb 4, 2023 2:49 PM

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léonie

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Feb 5, 2023 2:54 AM in response to Bob Switzer

This feature is no longer working properly in Photos 7 on Monterey, and it has not yet been fixed in Photos 8 on macOS 13 Ventura either, so upgrading to a newer system version will not solve the problem for you. It used to work well in the previous system versions.

Right now you can only drag the photos up to the upper border of the window, drop them, then scroll the window, drag further, etc, Or try to scroll with your fingers on the trackpad while you are dragging.

I am avoiding large albums and are splitting large albums into several smaller albums and group them inside a folder. That is making it much easier to keep them arranged and avoids a lot of scrolling and dragging across large distances.

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Bob Switzer Author

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Feb 5, 2023 4:22 AM in response to léonie

Thanks so much for your reply. I was certain that it used to work in previous versions of Photos. I've owned Macs since 1984 and I have found it frustrating over the years when a feature either gets removed or breaks and doesn't get fixed for far too long.

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