Photos Photo Sequencing Solution?

[jparker402]

I am using Photos, and working in the "All Photos" mode which is where I start out with my pictures. I entered them "automatically" as taken with my iPhone and as downloaded from my Canon camera when I had that. Otherwise they are digitized images by a friend or as I manage to scan them into my Mac from old photos. I am aware that they are going to go into Photos in the sequence that they are entered into my Mac, using a "correct" date if one exists or "today's" date if one does not exist. That has given me a picture train that is not in sequence. I have compensated for that in the past by manually going in and adjusting the date/time to move the photos into roughly the sequence they should be in. Now I am trying to refine that, and am finding that adjusting the date/time is not moving the photos to the right place.

I have researched enough that I believe that I cannot drag-and-drop photos in All Photos. I have read that I can do this if I first put photos into albums or make a slide show. I would rather select pictures from a historically sequenced master file to do either. What I am wondering, have I somehow overlooked an easier way of sequencing photos?

 

[stephenschimpf]

I set the date and time of photos that don't have a date and time associated with them, and the photos always are in the correct sequence...unless the location/time zone hasn't been set. So, when I take photos with an old digital camera in Europe, I find those photos aren't in the correct sequence until I also set the location/time zone for those photos. Is it possible that's the problem?

 

[jparker402]

Stephen, that is what I had been doing, and it had been working. Until yesterday. For some reason they wouldn't move or would move in the wrong direction. I am virtually certain there isn't an alternative, so I will have to try again when I regain the initiative. But will continue to hold out hope that someone will have an easier solution!!

 

[Dave Braine]

Work in the "Photos" option rather than "All Photos". They should be in the correct date order.

 

[jparker402]

Work in the "Photos" option rather than "All Photos". They should be in the correct date order.

They are in the date order according to the date I entered when editing the metadata. Many have no "true" dates, only the date they were entered into the Mac. I cannot drag-and-drop them out of the entry date sequence. Only way I an move them is to adjust the date. I have many to adjust, and it would would be easier to drag to the correct sequence and then adjust (if I still wanted to), then to have to try to figure out what the sequence should be then adjust each one. And it seems to make no difference whether I am in "Photos" or "All Photos".