Cant manually sort album folders

This issue presented itself after being forced to do an iPhoto library restore.
Overall the folders are in order with a few glaring exceptions.
Before adding a number in front of each of my >100 folders to sort alpha-numerically.. I wanted to see if I can some how re-enable the manual drag and drop type of sorting I was used to.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Try trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder.
(On 10.7: Hold the option (or alt) key while clicking on the Go menu in Finder to access the User Library)
(Remember you'll need to reset your User options afterwards. These include minor settings like the window colour and so on. Note: If you've moved your library you'll need to point iPhoto at it again.)
What's the plist file?
For new users: Every application on your Mac has an accompanying plist file. It records certain User choices. For instance, in your favourite Word Processor it remembers your choice of Default Font, on your Web Browser is remembers things like your choice of Home Page. It even recalls what windows you had open last if your app allows you to pick up from where you left off last. The iPhoto plist file remembers things like the location of the Library, your choice of background colour, whether you are running a Referenced or Managed Library, what preferences you have for autosplitting events and so on. Trashing the plist file forces the app to generate a new one on the next launch, and this restores things to the Factory Defaults. Hence, if you've changed any of these things you'll need to reset them. If you haven't, then no bother. Trashing the plist file is Mac troubleshooting 101.

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CSmith8 wrote:
Thank you for a quick response.
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I had assumed from CSmith8's original post that the text file processing vi worked. just drop that vi into the for loop and wire the file name in!
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