Comments on: The Secret to Manually Sorting Photos in iPhoto Events

By: Barbara Scott

Barbara Scott — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:19:47 +0000

I have the same problem as Nada. I have iPhoto ’09 and it won’t let me append a number. It is greyed out. Any solutions to this? I may have to resort to keeping my “albums” in order and not my events; which is annoying to say the least.

By: Forest

Forest — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:58:07 +0000

Kathy is correct. I’ve been trying to figure this out for an hour. It can be done in an “album” but not in an “event”.

Create a new album, drag all photos into the created album, pull down the “view” tab, then click the “sort photos” button, then select “manually”.

You should be able to drag images around as you please. Works great for using IPhoto as a slide show that now allows you to control image order.

(In the event, under “view”, “sort photos”, the “manually” tab will be grayed out.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 17 May 2010 00:42:06 +0000

Matt, your post was the closest thing I could find to finding an answer to this after an hour of searching the web. Thanks. Come to find out, I think the manual sorting feature is enabled after you make the event into an album. It worked for me w/o having to rename the batch.

By: Allison

Allison — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:14:38 +0000

Great tip! Thanks. Worked fine and I have iphoto 09. But this makes me want to buy Aperture even more
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By: Al Walker

Al Walker — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:36:50 +0000

Excellent!!!! Thanks!

By: nada

nada — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:44:21 +0000

I have iphoto 9 and it doesn’t let me append the number to each photo! what should I do?
Thanks

By: sheila

sheila — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:30:42 +0000

it worked perfectly, thank you

By: hlnt83

hlnt83 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:26:06 +0000

phew! thanks for figuring this out…was starting to drive me insane…! not too tricky either

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:23:23 +0000

Wow, I can’t believe they haven’t fixed this. I’ve got 2000 photos scanned in from the pre digital days — no dates are correct. If I managed to identify a vacation it would be really nice to set the picture in the order on the negatives. I have tried several times in iphoto09 but I can’t get manual sort within an event to work at all.

Any answers?

By: Paddy Byers

Paddy Byers — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:06:26 +0000

All this assumes that the only source of photos is a camera. For years I’ve been manually scanning photos that I’ve copied from various family members. Many are very old, and some are superb in their definition.
My problem is simply “How do I build folders holding the photos of various families, allowing sub-folders as the various family members who’ve married and had their own children? It’s a bit like making a family tree, using photos instead of words.
I hold them in folders within my computer, but I’d like to be able to share them in ways described within iPhoto.