Mac OS Photos 11 Scrambling Slideshow Order

What OS are you using? Did you manually transfer the photos to "My Projects" from "My Album" or drag them from the "Library"?

Since the update, my latest effort to create a 150+ vacation photo slideshow has experienced exactly the same frustrating problem. I agree neither the Theme nor the number of photos matter. When executing File: Create: Slideshow from an Album, where I have already placed the photos in the order I want them, they show up in the My Projects slideshow completely scrambled. Further, I found that if you simply create a duplicate Album of the pre-ordered photos, the duplicate Album is scrambled too. I ran a test album where I numbered 10 photos with 1-10 in the info box title, and then clicked View: Sort: By Name. The slideshow ordered the photos 1,10,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. That's as close as I have made it so far to a solution. I'm trying other alpha-numeric combinations to try to find something that works for greater than 1 digit. Dear Apple; This can't be intentional! Help!!

This worked for me too. Now thanks to you guys here I have found two ways to do make a Slideshow. This way and by starting with an empty Slideshow, clicking on the + and adding from the moments view. I prefer to be able to do it from an Album that I have already ordered so this way works the best for me. Thanks all 🙂

I just ran a test of manually sorted photos in an album and got the correct order in the slideshow:

Here's are two screenshots of the album's order and the photo tray of the slideshow:

The beginning of the slideshow:

The end of the slideshow:

Note: The annimated gif was too large to work in the reply.

I've tried this (using the + button) on a brand-new Slideshow project and it doesn't work for me – the added photos are in a completely random order.

mahippos wrote:

Don't drag your photos into project. Instead, go to the right end of the thumbnail strip of your slideshow project; click on the ⊕ and select "add photo." You will see a window with everything in your Photos library. Select from here and then click the Add button at the top left of the window. This seems to work for me.

That does not work for me at all, because the "+ Add Photos" view only shows the Moments view. There is not even a search field, and the sidebar with the albums is missing. My library is moderately sized, with only fifty thousand photos and videos, but having to track down the photos I want for my slideshow in the Moments with 50000 photos, without access to my albums, is not feasible.

It is exactly the same silly view as on my iPhone. I can understand, that the iPhone does not show a sidebar with albums on the small display, but why hide the albums on a Mac?

This is THE method to get the same order of slides as in the Albums ... at least for me (on High Sierra) Thanks a lot for the hint, Ultima2876

Doesn’t work. Period.

This just makes me scream. It's as if Apple software engineers are messing with us. It's like when they took away the filename label that we had in iPhoto when they went to Photos. You seriously can't choose the order you want slides to display in when you do a slideshow? My 1400 slides are in an album, and I want to show them in chronological order. No-brainer, right? Instead, it scrambles them (which I don't want). No "sort" option. So, the workaround is "create an empty slideshow, and add them all at once." Great, except you don't get an album view when you click the + sign. I know the Apple development cycle is extremely fast, but, really? This really passed user testing and QA? Or did you do any user testing???

I was able to create a "project" in the order I wanted by first doing it in "My Albums." Then control click on the album name, then Create - slide show. I was able to delete images from the project. I am afraid to change the order of the images.

It used to work for me this way, but sadly on High Sierra the ctrl-click "on the album name, then Create - slide show" method will only create a slideshow arranged by date. Any manual sort will be lost. And even the arrangement by date will be messed up, when I am using a theme with with several photos per slide.

We really, really need a way to ensure that photos will keep the sort order when being added to a project and also a sort command for the photos in a slideshow.