Manually arranging Library items -- buggy?

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Manually arranging Library items -- buggy?

I'm trying to figure out whether Aperture (all versions including latest) has a bug or whether I need to delete some preference-files to reset something.

I have several large Libraries, some 'general' ones and some others that are confined to particular travel-adventures. A general library has lots of Projects and a few albums. A travel Library probably has a Project for each camera chip and lots of Albums comprising the days and 'events' of the trip. In every Library, most Albums are manually created and some are Smart Albums.

THE PROBLEM: As I go thru the organizing process, I manually arrange the Albums, etc., in the Inspector pane but after dragging and dropping an Album in the pane it sometimes 'lands' in a spot a few items 'above' the place I dropped it. It's stubborn and repeatable. Restarting Aperture doesn't seem to fix it.

Seveal Aperture versions ago I filed this as a bug but nothing has changed. Have others witnessed it?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), Aperture 3.5

Posted on Nov 6, 2013 9:49 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 6, 2013 11:17 AM in response to Neil G

I have seen the same, but not in some time.

A suggested work-around:

Since the manual arrangement of items in the Library inspector is not recoverable should it be lost, I recommend against relying on it. Instead, re-name sub-items with a number (or symbol) prefix, and use the auto-alpha-sort

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Answer 2

Neil G Author

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Nov 7, 2013 2:17 PM in response to Kirby Krieger

That's an okay idea and will 'solve' the problem but it implies that I can make up appropriatly numbered prefixes as I go. Of course I've worked around various sorting problems by naming/numbering the file system's directories and folders on every computer I've ever used (including Unix on the PDP-11/20). But as soon as I want to create another album in-the-middle I might have to adjust a bunch of names. Feh.

As no one else has commented, maybe I'll go delete some preference files. Thanks.

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