Sort photos by import date?

I want to delete all the photos that I imported about 3 imports ago. There's over 6,000 and they're not mine, but they're scattered all over because iPhoto wants to sort them by date! Is there some add-on or hack to make it sort by import date?

iPhoto does not allow you to sort by import session, like Aperture does.Have the photos that you want to delete been taken with a different camera?
Then creating a smart album with all photos that have not been taken with your camera might help:
New > Smart album
If you are using more than one camera, you could add several rules by pressing "+".

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You can not -- neither automatically or manually - you should never be in the masters folder and there is never a need to be - iPhoto is a SQLite database and it's database structure is determined by it (and changes from time to time) - use the supported access methods (direct access to the photo files is not supported and never has been) - either using iPhoto or using the media browser in the lower left hand corner of every open/attach/iupload window
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how can you sort photos by descending date in Photos?

There is no way to do that.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Let Apple know your requirements.

Is it possible to sort photos by the date imported?

The majority of my photos were taken without the date being set in the camera.
In previous versions of iphoto it appeared as though each time I imported images (now called an event) the events were put in the order that they were imported.
I would like to go back to that method of ordering, on a temporary basis this will allow me to try estimate the date that each event took place because at least the events would be in chronological order.
Right now my events are completely unordered because of wrong dates.

I'm assuming that in addition to not having the date set in your camera you had not renamed the rolls in iPhoto 6 so every event is now titled "Untitled event"
The only way to fix your dates that comes to mind is to go back to iPhoto 6, go through all your rolls and name them 'Roll "date"' or even 'roll n' then reimport into iPhoto 7.0.2 . that way the events will be in the same order that the rolls were in iPhoto 6 and you can use the iPhoto "photos menu ==> adjust date and time" or "photos menu ==> batch change ==> set date" to modify the dates so the events work
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Image capture and sort photos correctly by date (SOLUTION)

Hello all:
+Image Capture+ has a hard time sorting photos properly unless you use the YEAR-MONTH-DAY short date format.
For example, if you try viewing photos on a memory card and your date format is month/day/year +Image Capture+ will first sort your photos by month, then date and finally year. If you list photos by day/month/year it'll first sort on day, then month, and finally year. Get the picture?
The solution is simple once you see the pattern:
Set your SHORT date format to YEAR-MONTH-DAY in System Preferences -> International -> Formats -> Dates/Customize.
Drag the colourful icons so you have the SHORT date format as 2010/01/05 (or 2010/1/5 if you don't use 0 in front of days or months).
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This had been driving me CRAZY! Thanks so much for posting this.
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Dear Grumpy
this is strictly a user to user forum and is specifically NOT a place to contact Apple - griping at the volenteer users here does no one any good at all
Have you made the request - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback?
LN
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I am sorry that I ran afoul of the user guidelines, I'll remove the rant if I can. I certainly did not intend my gripe to target the helpful responder. And yes, I did provide the feedback to Apple. I'm just used to such feedback going into a "black hole". Which this almost certainly does because this problem has existed for years (I Googled for an answer first.) However, it should be noted that company's tend to respond to feedback that is very public if they want to keep a good name in the business. The private feedback through the program is like a quiet whisper, only the two parties involved know about it, so there is no real incentive for prompt action.
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