How do I move a photo within an album? Clicking and dragging does not work.

Dragging the photos around to rearrange them will work in a standard album, but is not supported in a smart album or in a Shared album. Which kind of album are you trying to arrange?

In a standard album make sure that the option "View > Keep Sorted By Date" is not active. It should be disabled automatically, when you manually drag the photos around, but sometimes it will stick.

Norris wrote:

Thank you Léonie! I am very grateful! It was a smart album -- based on keywords. I even found a way -- via the plus sign -- to move the images from my smart album to the new standard one.

But is there any way to control the arrangement of the thumbnails in a smart album?

Thanks again!

Norris

a Smart album is always sorted by the capture date. The next version of pPhotos will have more options for sorting. I'd wait with any major reorganization of the library for the next version.

Capture date means nothing to me, since I am dealing with works of art, not snapshots.

Then you could change the capture dates, so the photos will be sorted like you want them.

You can change the capture dates from the Image menu: Image > Adjust date and time.

although i'm having trouble with the year, which, it seems, you cannot just type in.

Enter the year first - you have to be quick when you enter the year and must not hesitate after entering the first digits.

But I cannot adjust the title, or rather the second line of the title (between where it says title and the date and time.

The title goes into the first line of the Info panel, where it says title. The second line in the Info panel is the filename. You cannot edit the filename.

You could also type the title directly into the textfield below the thumbnail.

I posted an Apple Script in th User Tip section to help with batch changing the date and time of scans.

See: Photos for Mac: Batch Change the Date and Time to a Fixed Date

(Try the version 2 on that page)

If you arrange the photos in a top level album, so they are sorted like you want them, the script will change the date and time of all photos, so that the dates of successive photos will be incremented by a fixed increment in minutes.