How do I sort Photos by date taken? The default "Keep sorted by oldest date added" is quite annoying and not helpful. I can't seem to unlock sort options for All Photos. Help?
iMac (27-inch Late 2009), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
This is not correct as they are not in order as added. This is quite possibley Apples worst program ever. I hate it.
I spent literally 100's of hours on my iphoto to the point where everything was where I wanted. Easy to use....Not so now. Its hit and miss locating a photo. Hate photos!
That is the All Photos album and it can only be sorted by date added to photos and is extremely important so you can find photos by import date
Photos view shows them by date taken - and user albums can be sorted by Photo date - you can make your own all photos album that can be sorted by photo date with a smart album that all photos meet like File menu ==> new smart album - criteria date is after 1/1/1000
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The default "Keep sorted by oldest date added" is quite annoying and not helpful. I can't seem to unlock sort options for All Photos.
It is intentional. This way you always find the photos you recently added, at the bottom of the All Photos album, even after the photos have been gone from the Last Import album. It is the only place where you can find the recently imported photos quickly. No other album can be sorted by "Date added". All predefined smart albums are having a fixed sort order.
Any album or smart album you create yourself can be sorted by the title or the creation date. If you want to create your own All Photos album, as Larry recommended, you could use rules like this:
File > New Smart album, then set it up with a rule that will be true for all photos in your library:
I'm using these rules:
You could also add a "Camera Model" rule to separate the photos from different cameras.
Then ctrl-click the new album in the sidebar and select the sort option you want:
How do I sort Photos by date taken?
