Photos doesn't remember to keep sort by title. Macbook also doesn't remember to view in column.

Thank you for responding. There isn't a filter used when I copy a flash card to a new album. Simply the images/files might not appear in successive order. I do a lot of bracketed photography and instead of searching the album for a missing image in a series, (in the album), I've been going to View>Sort>Keep sorted by title, then they fall into chronological order. Even though I do that, sometimes, when I go back to an album, they might not be necessarily be listed the same way I left them. I read that article and I tried right clicking on the album and it looks like the default is sort by oldest first, as that was what was checked, (because I didn't check it). I went through all the albums and made sure they were all "keep sorted by title," and I'll see if that sticks. I guess I'll have to do the same every time I copy a flash card to an album. Even if the default was sort by oldest first, that doesn't explain why in a series of 5 or 7 bracketed images, one of them might be somewhere else in the album by default.

Thank you Richard for your help. I've been using iPhoto/Photos for decades and never had this problem before. It's Photos version 7 on a 2021 M1 Macbook Pro OS 12.6.6. I've always treated file names as titles. The last project I uploaded had over 3,000 images and there's no way I'll title, probably, any of them. When a successive bracketed group of 7, let's say, images are taken, when they're imported into a new album, those 7 images might not appear together. However, when I change to sort by title, then, always, they move to the correct order. I don't understand how, if the default is, sort by oldest first, that explains how one of the consecutive images can end up many places away, as it was taken within fractions of seconds from the images encompassing it.

I also noticed on this macbook, that when I click on some icon with contents I want to see, sometimes the "view" is "icons" instead of "columns," which I always choose. It doesn't happen a lot, but occasionally. I'll report back to this thread next time it happens, because I've forgotten, but it was viewing something I had already chosen "columns" for, but the view switched back to "icons." Maybe just a bug.