Hard Drive reorders photos after manual sorting

Hi, ive just put all my photos on a Hard Drive, the order of all my photos has been changed, they are in separate folders so I spent 4 hrs yesterday putting them back in order, today I went to carry on and it has reverted to the original layout, how do I stop the computer overriding my photo order? TIA Geoff

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.7

Posted on Nov 29, 2025 3:17 AM

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Nov 30, 2025 3:00 AM in response to Richard.Taylor

Hi Richard, I’m putting all my photos on my HDD and when I transfer them the order they were in gets completely changed, I then rearranged my photos on the HDD and then closed it down, when I went in to the HDD the next day all the photos had been changed back to the original transfer order, I’m now attempting to put them in a “slide show” and I’m hoping that will keep them in the order I want. Thanks

Hard Drive reorders photos after manual sorting

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