duplicating an album on a portable flash drive

As a "non-cloud" backup, I wish to duplicate my Albums from the Photos program on a portable flash drive. I am given the choice of doing this by "Album name with number", "by title", "by original file name", or "sequentially". However, once the export is done, none of these choices produces a copy that duplicates the original setup of the album ...in the original album I have given a title to each photo and then arranged them in my own choice of sequence. "Album name with number" and "sequential" puts them in order but eliminates the titles. "By title" gives the titles but then arranges these alphabetically. "Original file name" just gives the original image number from the camera and is of no use.

I believe when I used Yosemite I managed to get an exact duplicate album but now with El Capitan, I'm having no luck. I have searched extensively for answers to this question, but have not found any answers. Any one's help will be appreciated.

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Nov 12, 2015 4:28 PM

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Nov 19, 2015 11:51 AM in response to growapples

Solved my own problem! First add a number before each title in your album. For example a photo titled "Car Races" now becomes " 001 Car Races". Then export the contents of the album organizing "by title" .... with the numbers in front of each title this still allows the titles to show but instead of an alphabetical arrangement done according to the first letter in each title, the titles will be sequenced according tot he number preceding each title.

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