RE: Organizing Images in Library

Hello Everyone.
I have Many Images in my Library, and I would like to organize them such as moving them next to each other, But for example: when I try moving a image from second row to the top or bottom I get this message that this dose not support custom selection.

Is seems like when you Import Images First, all the Images goes to All Photographs, Am I Correct ?
All Photographs are one place you can see the photos. I guess I wouldn't use the phrase "goes to", as All Photographs is simply displaying things, it doesn't "contain" photos.
Also I noticed Every time I Import Images It also goes to the Smart Collections. am I Correct ?
If your smart collections are set up a certain way, then yes, newly imported photos can appear in certain smart collections. But they don't have to appear in smart collections on Import. I guess I wouldn't use the phrase "goes to", as smart collections are simply displaying things, they don't "contain" photos.
In other words If you have 100 Images Inside the All Photographs, you also going to have 100 Images Inside the Smart collections Is that Correct ?
As I said, it doesn't have to work this way, but it can work this way. Or maybe some of the 100 will appear in certain smart collections, but not all.
What Happens If you Delete the Smart collections ?
Then the smart collection doesn't exist any more.
Also why When you Import for example One Image It dose not stay either in the order like In Top or the bottom, It gets mixed up In the middle of Images ?
There are different sort orders. Perhaps you need to change the sort order, via the Lightroom command View->Sort

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I also keep my masters in a folder structure with year at the highest level and day of shooting below that.
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