why is Manual grayed out in sort photos

Manual will un-gray once you manually arrange the order of your images.

That is once you drag one image into a different place in the Browser then you have created a manual sort order and the button will be selected. If you then go to a different sort order (say by size) the manual sort order will be remembered and can be retrieved by selecting manual sort.

"Manual" will restore a manual sort after you have navigated away from it by selecting another of the sorts. It is grayed out because there is no manual sort currently saved for the selected container. If you wish to manually sort your Images, simply do so with the mouse. Once a manual sort for a container has been set, it will be remembered, and can be restored by selecting "manual" from the sort drop-down.

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will try and find This Solved My Problem

You will not find it, Mike. You posted this thread as a discussion, not a question, so there is no "This solved my Problem". Theer two different kind of threads - discussions and question. You can award points only for questions.

I just tried to answer your other question, but it vanished, after I posted my answer 😝 Re: in Aperture 3.4.3 how do you sort photos manually?

Regards

Léonie

Mike

Don't worry about it, not a problem. Glad we could answer your question

regards

Thanks I will make sure to mark threads as a question in the future

No problem, Mike. 🙂