In photos, I want to copy an album with several hundred photos all of which have titles and put them on a flash drive for a relative. All works fine, but the files on the flash are alphabetized by name. I would like the copy to be just like the original without the alphabetization. Any way to do this?
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imac, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
There are several hundred titled photos in the album. How does one use the sequential feature?
exporting from Photos will turn your photos into files in a folder. The Finder or the program used to to show the photos will only see the file names. To keep the files sorted, include numbers into the filenames.
Photos can create filenames on export, that will start with a number, if you use "File > Export > export .. photos" and then set the option "Filename" to sequential, but this way the titles will not appear as part of the filename.
If you want to see the titles as the filename, you have to use "File > Export > export .. photos" with "Filename > Title".
To keep the sort order, include a padded running number in the title, so instead of "Statue of Liberty" as the title use "001 Statue of Liberty" as the first title. Photos has no tool to prefix the titles with numbers. You will have to do that manually or write an Apple Script.
There are several hundred titled photos in the album. How does one use the sequential feature?
exporting from Photos will turn your photos into files in a folder. The Finder or the program used to to show the photos will only see the file names. To keep the files sorted, include numbers into the filenames.
Photos can create filenames on export, that will start with a number, if you use "File > Export > export .. photos" and then set the option "Filename" to sequential, but this way the titles will not appear as part of the filename.
If you want to see the titles as the filename, you have to use "File > Export > export .. photos" with "Filename > Title".
To keep the sort order, include a padded running number in the title, so instead of "Statue of Liberty" as the title use "001 Statue of Liberty" as the first title. Photos has no tool to prefix the titles with numbers. You will have to do that manually or write an Apple Script.
you do not understand how files work - the viewer controls the sort order of the photos not the program that wrote the files, file shave no order but the viewing program gives you many options - using the finder you can sort by file name, creation date, size, etc, etc, etc - the photos application has no control over which of those you choose
One simple way of making it easy to view them in the order they were in Photos is to export using the sequential names option for the files (if the full export window does not show click the v to the right of kind to open it up) then in the finder sort by file name
LN
There are several hundred titled photos in the album. How does one use the sequential feature?
Thanks for your help. I am a senior citizen and do NOT. Understand how all this wo
senior citizen (as I am) or any other age the answer is simple - files have no order - the program you use to view the provides the order
LN
exporting photo albums to flash drive
