Cant sort photos manually

Recently imported some photos and in the event file for the photos I am UNABLE to sort manually. I can sort by any other criteria however. How can I sort manually? Do I need to create a new album to sort manually? It appears so. But this is a PAIN when I have several thousand photos and I do not want 5,000 folders in my iphoto screen.
John
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Events are a very basic automatic organization for people who do not what to bother and generally are best left in their default time/date organization
In photos view you can sort manually if you turn show event titles off but with a large library launching iPhoto in photos view can be slower
folders do not show on your iPhoto screen - they only show in the source pane on the left and folders hold albums or other folders - a great organization tool
Albums hold photos and can be sorted manually - with albums, smart albums and folders you can build very complex organization systems that exactly match your needs
LN

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Sorting photos manually in events

I have all my events sorted 'manually' and want to have my photos in each event set the same way, so I can change the order of them instead of sticking with the order iPhoto puts them in. However when I am in an event and try to sort photos 'manually' instead of 'by date', it wont let me do this (the manually option is not highlighted like the 'by date, by keyword, by title' etc are). I have tried resetting all my events to 'by date' but that made no difference. Is there a way to sort my photos in each events 'manually' or do i just have to leave them in the order iphoto chooses?

Manual sorting of photos within event is not available - and the "order iPhoto choose" is the order you took the photos in - it is data and time order
For other sorting use albums
LN

Why am I unable to sort photos manually?

The option to sort photos manually and the option to reset manual sort are grayed out. Why?
Here is a screenshot: http://f.cl.ly/items/1h1b1m2p3b1O3a1O2V2i/Screen%20Shot%202011-10-03%20at%207.36 .00%20PM.png

Because you are in the Library and Manual Sorting is not an option there. To have manual sorting create an Album and you can do as you want.
Regards
TD

Sort photos manually

I am unable to sort my photos manually. The manual label is greyed out. the reset manual sort is greyed out. I have not found the way to activate them - this is iphoto 11. how do i rectivate these 2 items?I just want to move my photos around as i did in past versions. any help welcome
sorry cant paste image here -

Because sometimes you want to see photos in a different sequence
Which is exactly what Albums are designed for.
Events are organisation for those who can't really be bothered. They are automatic - based entirely on Date and Time the camera records the photos as taken. You can move photos between Events, you can Merge Events, you can Rename them and sort them in various ways except one: You cannot manually sort in an Event as Events are all automated. If you want to manually sort in an Event then you've outgrown Events as an organising tool. Now it's time to look at albums (Where you can manually sort) which are much more flexible than Events as an organising tool.

Sorting photos manually

Does anybody know how I can have my photos sorted by date, and then move them around manually after wards to fine tune the order? I know how to go into view, then have them sort by date, but the 'sort manually' option is faded out and unselectable (for lack of a better word). Am I missing something?
Thanks!

In the event view of your library you can not reorder photos manually
In photo view with event titles turned off you can manually sort your photos (but this does not change the order in events - just in the photo view - and in photo view with event titles turned off loading may be slow since there are so many photos to image
Generally albums are the place to control the specific order of photos
You also can change the time and date on photos so that the event sort by date/time will do what you want
LN

Album order (after "sort photos manually") not staying

I have an album of about 500 pictures (from my 10,000 library). I sorted the pictures in it manually, but every time I close iPhoto and then reopen it, the order is messed up a bit with random pictures are out of order.
any ideas?
roger

I was unable to duplicate your problem with an album of 16 photos. Try deleting the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder and try again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding the the Option key. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
Did you check to see if the sort order was still set to Manually?

HT3805 why is Manual grayed out in sort photos

why is Manual grayed out in sort photos

will try and find This Solved My Problem
You will not find it, Mike. You posted this thread as a discussion, not a question, so there is no "This solved my Problem". Theer two different kind of threads - discussions and question. You can award points only for questions.
I just tried to answer your other question, but it vanished, after I posted my answer Re: in Aperture 3.4.3 how do you sort photos manually?
Regards
Léonie

Manual Sort Photos

I can sort my Events manually. Now I would like to sort my photos manually within the Events. Under View - Sort Photos ... Manually is dimmed as is "Reset Manual Sort." Is it possible to sort photos manually?

Thanks for the comments, but that doesn't really solve the problem. Remember, I'm trying to group photos so I can select the ones I want to remove from my hard drive. If I did that in an album, I would only be removing the photos from the album, not from the library and hard drive altogether.
The workaround I found so far is a bit painful:
- create an album from the event in question
- sort the photos to group them so it's easy to pick the ones I want to delete
- rate the photos I want to remove with a specific rating, different than the ones I want to keep
- go back to the event
- find the photos based on rating
- move them to trash
- remove the album (or keep it if I'm going to make an album anyways)
Anybody has a simpler recipe ?
Also I like the "Events" view very much, where I can skim over large icons that represent each event to see pictures. Is there a similar view for Albums somewhere ?
PS: I did send feedback already, thanks for the suggestion.

Sorting photos within an event

I'm trying to find a way to rearrange my photos within an event. According to the instructions in help:
Sort photos within Events (but not the Events themselves): Select Photos in the Source list, choose View > Event Titles, and then choose View > Sort Photos.
Trouble is, when I try to choose Event titles, it is grayed out. If I go to the event and then select view>sort photos, manually is grayed out and by date and desending are checked.
Anyone have a suggestion.

Did you read the answer?
Events are a very limited form of organising. They are sorted on date and time only. If you want more flexibility then you need to use Albums, where there a virtually no limitations.
That is the answer! You can not sort photos within events.
LN
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Sorting Photos

Hello Hello
I was able to create a slide show from photos that I recently put in the Main Library.
The 52 photos that I inserted in the Main Library, were tagged with numbers from 1 to 52
(with a few tagged as 16a, 16b, 16c etc ...)
I was able to view/organize them:
View
Sort Photos
Manually
Ascending
The photos appeared as I wanted them to just fine.
After those photos were put in the Main Library, I copied them to a newly created Album, and they also appeared in the same order.
From the newly created album, I created a slide show, and the photos continued to appear in numerical order just fine.
Now I copied those same photos to another computer (with the same version of iPhoto)
However when I tried to duplicate the same Album, and same Slide Show, I couldn't get the photos to appear in numerical order no matter what I did....
Any thoughts?
Thanx
Mike

Mike,
While you are able to get iPhoto to display your photos in order of their Titles, the File Names have remained unchanged. When you copy them to a different computer their order is still determined by those File Names.
Select the album and do a File > Export to a desktop folder. Choose "Use Album Name" to change the File Names as you export. See if this option will preserve your order. Or try "Use title" to change the file name to the iPhoto title. At any rate, you can change the file names however you want from the desktop before you copy them to the other Mac and import into iPhoto.

Sorting photos inside events

Still wondering whether it is possible to sort photo's within events (manually). The I Photo Help says the following...
**Sort photos (regardless of Event): Select Photos in the Source list, choose View and make sure Event Titles is unchecked, and then choose View > Sort Photos.
...But these instructions don't work.
it is clearly not possible to click on "Event>Title" since it is greyed out, so you can't get into an event after you have selected Photos in the Source List (which I assume means Library here).

The Help file is not correct - you can not sort photos manually in events
You can manually sort photos in Photo view move but not in events
You can sort photos in albums
Larry Nebel

View Photos Manually for MobileMe Album

Hi All.
I was given a nice suggestion about how I can order my images in an Album Manually before posting to MobileMe so that they show up in some kind of coherent order.
Is this simply to go into the Photos view, get into the Album that I wish to order images within, and do View > Sort Photos > Manually?
I am trying this and it appears that the Album titles disappear and I get a display of /all/ my photos instead of simply the ones that I wish to order for the Album I am going to be posting. I can't order all my images because there are way too many.
If I go into Events view and open and Album it won't let me select "Manually" as it is greyed out.
Is there a good way for me to display images in some kind of coherent order in MobileMe?
Thanks,
Jonathan

Is this simply to go into the Photos view, get into the Album that I wish to order images within, and do View > Sort Photos > Manually?
No.
The trick is to create an Album (File -> New Album) add the pics you want to upload to that Album (Drag and drop them from the Library to the Album in the Sidebar) and then order them as you want. Then upload that Album to MM
Regards
TD

Sorting photos from scans of negatives

Ok, I took about 20 rolls of negatives to a photo lab and the tech did'nt really pay too much attention to the order of the strips in each roll.
I have sucsessful in seperating the photos in appropriate rolls and then dating each roll.
I also know i can change date of the pictures either individually or by batch, however the ORDER of the photos is completes arbitray. I have the original prints with the print number on the back of them. I additionally know I can assign individual times to each picture in batch, but the order they are in is all wrong within each roll.
Question: is there an easier way to re-order the photos other than assigning individual sequential times.
In other words, what I'm hoping is there is some sort of "jelly mode" where by you can drag the photos into any order you wish , and then have the dates assigned with a one minute differential based on the new dragged order.
Please help.
If you are a Mac Software designer for iPhoto, please include "jelly mode" in the next update/upgrade.

I don't think this is what you want, but...
You can set View>Sort Photos>Manually, but when I do that it sorts the whole library that way. It would be nice to be able to sort within the film rolls manually.
Karen
Edit: If you do get the photos in the order you want manually, you can go to Photos>Batch Change>Set Date and then you can set the date for the first photo and the time interval between each photo. I suppose you could make an album out of each roll, and sort manually within the album, then do the batch change.
Hopefully, someone else has a better idea on how to do this.
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Sort photos in an event manually

Why would the sort manually option be grayed out, not able to choose?
I went into event click view, click sort photos but the manually option is not available.
Is there a way to change this?
Thanks

Because manual sorting of events or photos within an event is not a feature of iPhoto '09 - and no there is now way to turn it on
albums can be manually sorted - events are (by default) in time/date order
LM

How can I sort photos within an event? When I follow the Help instructions, I can sort manually in Photo format, but when I return to Event format, the original order is restored.

How can I sort photos within an event? When I follow the Help instructions, I can sort manually in Photo format, but when I return to Event format, the original order is restored.

Events are organisation for those who can't really be bothered. They are automatic - based entirely on Date and Time the camera records the photos as taken.
You can move photos between Events, you can Merge Events, you can Rename them and sort them in various ways except one: You cannot manually sort in an Event as Events are all automated.
If you want to manually sort in an Event then you've outgrown Events as an organising tool. Now it's time to look at albums (Where you can manually sort) which are much more flexible than Events as an organising tool.

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