IPhoto: arrange standard albums by date or alphabet.

iPhoto: I used to be able to re-arrange albums by highlighting the album and dragging it where I wanted it to be. A spacer bar would appear between albums and I could drop the album to a new position. So I was able to arrange albums by date or by alphabet. Currently, I can highlight an album but no spacer bar appears and the album I wish to move is dropped into an existing album.
Also, Does anyone know what happened to the 'detect Duplicate' tool for iPhoto??
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Re: moving the albums:
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
Re: Duplicates. iPhoto has never had a 'detect duplicates'too. (Perhaps you're confusing it with iTunes.) Some apps for dealing with duplicates in iPhoto
iPhoto Library Manager
Duplicate Annihilator
Decliner
iPhoto Duplicate Cleaner

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