Import sort order

It seems we have a new import system whereby new events are added to the top, but from oldest to newest. The problem is my events are sorted manually but essentially from newest to oldest. This used to work fine but now the order is backwards on all new imports. Is there a preference for this? Even if I manually reorder all my events from oldest to newest, any new events will still appear at the wrong end no?

Thanks Terence but will that not reorder my entire list of events if they've been manually sorted? Many of my events are simply consolidations of say a years worth of my kids random pics and other misc groups, not to mention scans of old photos which we're never time stamped. I've accidentally 'sorted by' once before and the results were not pretty. Took me days to reorder them.

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