Moving a photo in an event

I'm trying to change the order/position of some photos in an event (for example, making the 5th photo in an event the 1st photo etc). Thought it was as simple as dragging the photo I want to move to it's new position in the event, but each time I try to do that the photo want move. Any suggestions?

Rock Vegas
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I'm trying to change the order/position of some photos in an event (for example, making the 5th photo in an event the 1st photo etc)
You really can not in event view - photo view you can go to manual sort and change the order of with photos title turned off
Events are a time based display and being time based does not match up with moving photos. If you are trying to set the key photo (the one that displays as the thumbnail for an event) with the event open select the photo and under the events menu select "Make key photo" or in thumbnail view scroll side to side to the photo you want as the key photo and hit the space bar once to set it as the key photo
LN

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Apple doesn't make it easy to do what you want. However, here's how I do it.
Select the photo you want to move and create a new Event for it via the Event ➙ Create Event menu option.
In the Event mode select the new Event with the one picture and drag it onto the Event you want to move the photo to.

Moving Photos from One Event to Another

I don't entirely understand how to do this. When I want to move photos from one event to another, I usually just drag the photos from one event to another. This works fine when the two events are next to each other (within the same window). However, it he event is not in the same window (requiring a scroll up or down) then the drag and drop can't happen (i.e., having to drag photos from my last event to the first event). Any suggestions here?

If you're merging two Events you ca do this in Event View - just drag one Event to the Other and they will be merged.
If you're moving pics from an Event to another (but not a Full Merge):
Photos View, the go View -> Event Titles and option Click on the wee triangle to close all the Events.
Then open the Event you want to get the Files From. Select the Files.
Drag them to the bottom of the iPhoto Window - above the toolbar - and the Window will scroll. (There's a bit of a knack to doing this: there's a sweet spot just above the tool bar. Get the Cursor there and the window will scroll. With practise you can even control the rate and speed of scrolling)
Drop them on the target Event.
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Moving photos within an event

How do I move the photos within an event so that they are in the order that I desire?

that is not a feature of iPhoto - events are basically time/date based
Use albums for custom order of photos
LN

Moving Photo's between events

Ok i'm beat
How do you move individual photo's between events
The open event in separate window has gone in 11 so that option is no more
I know there is an option to copy & paste but it is working at all it allows to copy but the past option is greyed out I have also tried CMD + C CMD + V still nothing
Any Help Please
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This worked for me (or at least something like this :-p).
Select the two events between which you would like to exchange photos. Double click one of the selected events. (You should see a "zoom" of only the two selected events.) Select the photo you want to move; drag it to the other event. (Hmm... Looks like you might need to drag the photo to the title of the "new" event.)
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Gale002
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
1 Use PHOTOS view and then select View > Event Titles
(You can open and close Events by clicking on the wee triangle to the left of the title. option (or alt) - click will open and close all at one go.)
2. You can now drag and drop pics between Events easily.
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TD

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Like Jim said, you most likely want Albums for what you describe. Albums simply consist of "pointers" to a single compilation of image data. Albums can be created and deleted at will, because they are just pointers; an important concept.
Also learn to use Keywords - and unlearn "folder" organization, which is not the way digital asset management works. The power of Albums and Keywords is huge once we lose the film-think of folders organization.
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Is there a way to do this without manually re-sorting the photos? I currently have ca. 10,000 photos in 270 events, and I am not looking forward to a manual re-sort.
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The easiest way ti to use your backup of the iPhoto library - that is why you make them - in case of software, hardware or human error
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