Retain custom order in albums when exporting to different iPhoto library?

Hi all.
To ease resource consumption, I'm placing many of my 20,000 iPhoto9 items into a new iPhoto9 library.
I have many albums with pictures in custom order.
Any recommendations on how to retain that order when copying the photos/ albums to the new library?
If I copy the files to wherever, quit iPhoto and reopen in the new library for import, they files are imported to the new iPhoto library in whatever order they are listed in the finder, which is not the custom order I created in the album in the original album.
Don't want to waste all the time I spent putting them in certain order.
Many thanks!

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You're not actually moving albums from one Library to another. Your exporting groups of photos to the FInder. Then import them to iPhoto. There's no connection between the two libraries.
The problem with this wirkflow is that you lose more than your custom sort. At the very lest you lose the ability to revert to original for edited photos, and the non-destructive editing feature. Depending on how you're exporting you may also be losing a lot of metadata.
You could try use iPhoto Library Manager which will move albums from one Library to another directly, with all the versions and metadata intact. I'm not sure that it will preserve a custom sort, but you could drop the makers a line and enquire from them.
Other alternatives:
Duplicate your existing library, and then remove the pics you don't want from the new version.
Finally, you're using less than 10% of iPhoto's capacity and a 20k library is quite small these days. What is the problem you're trying to solve?
Regards
TD
If you want to keep using your custom workflow, create a sequential title for the pics in the Albums, export using the File -> Export command, choosing to use the Title as filename. Then import to the new Library and sort on Title.

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