Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
My albums iPhoto were in chronological order. I clicked the "sort" to view them in alphabetical order, now I'd like to put them back in chronological order. How can I do that?
Mac OS X (10.3.5)
View>Sort Photos>By Date
Message was edited by: Matthew McAlister
View>Sort Photos>By Date
Message was edited by: Matthew McAlister
That only seems to work with the photos in the album. How do I sort the albums in chronological order?
After trying this, myself, I don't believe you can. I can't even have my albums sort by title. What version of iPhoto are you using?
I have iPhoto 11 (9.1.3). The way to sort albums alphabetically is to click with two fingers (trackpad) or CTRL-click on any album. You will be given a dialogue box with a choice to 'Sort Albums'. WARNING: Once you click it, they're in alphabetical order, and it looks like the only way to get them back in chronological order is manual. I've got over 100 albums. It's an impractical option.
Unfortunately you can only sort Alpha - and there is no undo - events can (normally should be) in chronological order - and the search windows lets you instantly find photos from any date or date range
LN
Alas, albums contain photos from multiple events. Perhaps if Apple is reading this stuff they can include a function to sort by the date the album was created. It would be a far easier way to get my album list back in order.
Apple might or might not be reading this stuff - the only way to be sure Apple sees your feedback is to send it to them - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback
LN
My whole library and iPhone were screwed up from this iOS 8 update.
Somehow, over 4,000 photos were deleted from both my iPhone and iPhoto program.
I backed them up to another laptop so am now consolidating and putting every photos onto my iMac then backing up from there.
This is the only way I can figure out how to put everything in chronological order (as I have some "events" that are over 5,000 photos alone, totaling over 30,000 photos) is by going to the EVENTS page, selecting all then click on EVENTS at the top and "AUTOSPLIT EVENTS".
This is now breaking down each of my events into individual dates - from there, I'm hoping that I'll be able to sort everything out.
Will keep you posted.
1 - your post has no relation to this thread - Threadjacking is not a good idea, reduces your chances of finding a solution and generally messes things up for everyone
2 - upgrading to IOS 8 did NOTHING to your iPhoto for Mac Library - there is no connection of any sort between IOS and iPhoto for the Mac and nothing you did on an IOS device(s) caused any change in your iPhoto fro the Mac library
3 - Maybe if you clearly stated what you did on your Mac in a new thread giving details like version of iPhoto and of the OS, details about what you did on the Mac only and what has happened someone could help
LN
the original question was "how do I put my photo albums in chronological order?"… I was having the same issue.
Calm down - I don't understand how my response is considered "threadjacking" in your opinion…?
You don't know what happened with my iPhone or iMac, so keep your opinions to yourself.
Right and without others input you will never solve your problem s=since you do not even understand it well enough to describe it or put it in an appropriate place or to figure out that IOS 8 had NO effect on the Mac in any way
You have a nece day
Threajacking generally des not turn out well
Nite
LN
My iPad's an older version so here's what I do which may or may not help you: Open albums. Click edit In upper right corner. Find album that needs to be placed in order. All albums should show an X on them. Hold down the album you want to move. Continue holding it down as you move it up into the correct spot. Then release. Ta Da!
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While that's interesting this question is about iPhoto for the Mac and nothing to do with iPads or iPhones.
Oops! Sorry!
How do I put photo albums in chronological order?
