Moving many albums into just 1 album

hello all...i have 4 albums i would like to move to just one album and make a slideshow. my problem is, when i select all the pics from one album and drag to new album, no problem. then, when i select all pics from 2nd album and drag, the new imported pics are scattered throughout the new album. i would like to move them and keep them in order. hope this makes sense. any help would be appreciated

applex2:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Create the new album and set the sort to manual. Now try dragging each of the other albums in, one at a time and see if the order is kept. That's the only way I know of the achieve it if it is possible.
The only other way would be to batch sequentially rename each album so that when sorted by title they would be in the order you want. Like the first album rename to A-1.jpg, etc. and the second album to B-1.jpg, etc. When you're done you can batch change the title back to the file name.

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