Moving photos in album

I've run into a very annoying problem - when I try to rearrange a group of photos the last photo moves to the first position in the group. For example: I have 100 photos in album, (sorted by file name) I select a group of photos (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50) and move them to the beginning of the series ( before photo number 1). The problematic result is a rearrangement of the moved group: 50, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49. I suspect a bug. Waiting for update or solution...
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

The resulting order of those photos that you selected to move will be the same as the order in which they were selected. So if you select starting with 50 and go to 45 they will end up at the top beginning with 50 and descending to 45.
If you select them randomly between 45 and 50 they will end up in the order you selected them.

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Dekka1 a écrit:
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