Iphoto sort manually grayed out

 · But you can easily view your photos sorted by time or title by creating a Smart Album and using that to view your photos instead. You can also sort your list of Photo albums by viewing all of the albums and choosing a sort option, or manually dragging and dropping the albums. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device.  · In response to Paul Reading2. That is the wrong answer. If you look at the album "All photos" Keep sorted by date added" is checked and greyed out. No the answer was not wrong. The fact is that being able to sort other than Date Added in the All Photos window is not possible. That feature was left out of Photos. Click to select Events in the Source list and then choose View Sort Events. (If you’re in full-screen view, move your pointer to the top of the screen to make the menu .

If you subscribe to Apple Music or iTunes Match, you can turn on Sync Library on each of your devices to access your music library across your devices. If you see songs that are grayed out and can't be played after you turn on Sync Library, follow the steps below. Thanks Gary. I tried creating a smart folder of just the raw files in my iPhoto library. What I noticed was, it did not allow me delete the raw files. The move to trash function was greyed out. The only way is to delete the pictures one by one from the events/photo page. There is more than one way to sort! And you get to pick your favorite! There are 4 main ways of sorting that I use when helping clients sort their photos, and which one I use depends entirely on my clients' preferences, so let's go over them. They are: Chronological Sorting. Thematical Sorting. Sequencial Sorting.

Six months later, El Capitan is out, Photos is , and it is as bad as ever. I have no sort order choices. The useless-to-me choice of Keep Sorted by Oldest Date Added is grayed out. I have forty years of photos (I scanned my 35mm film negatives) that were entered into iPhoto around Date of addition is worse than useless. The checkmark is indicating that the album is sorted by the date the photos have been added to the Photos library. When viewing Moments this will change to " ︎ Keep Sorted by Date", the standard sort order for moments. The greyed-out, standard sort options cannot be changed, so they are shown as greyed out. When I point to the new drive and file location from iPhoto, I see a grayed-out (actually it's blue) folder that I cannot open. Now - to compare. I'm also in my old drive and when you look at the Pictures folder, you don't see another folder that says iPhoto Library, you see what looks like an 'application' file, or what you actually can point.