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kayak107
Inspiring
May 24, 2021
Question

how to sort where file added to collection lands

  • May 24, 2021
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anytime I added a file to a collection it also landed at the top.  now it's landing at the bottom.  how can I redirect?

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KR Seals
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 26, 2021

@kayak107 Is it possible that the image date is earlier than the rest in that collection? When LrC starts doing strange things, try resetting the preferences. Here is the Lightroom Queen's page showing how to do that.

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.
kayak107
kayak107Author
Inspiring
May 28, 2021

the sort has to be Z-A.  That adds all images to the top.  I suspect that I may have changed it at one time to A-Z without realizing.   Thanks again.  Sorry for the trouble.

gary_sc
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 25, 2021

Go into Library mode, go into Grid view (#1), and click on that collection.

 

Then Click on the order forward or backward (#2).

 

Be sure you're sorting on the thing you want to sort on (#3) such as date, time, name, etc.

kayak107
kayak107Author
Inspiring
May 26, 2021

in grid view, A/Z or Z/A, capture time = images are all over the place, no rhyme or reason, random.

 

in grid view, A/Z or Z/A, custom order = half the recent additions are at the top and half are at the bottom.

 

Up until recently I haven't had this problem.  All additions to a collection went to the top.

KR Seals
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 24, 2021

I just checked that on my Win 10 LrC 10.2 setup. Sorting in Collections works just like sorting in Folders. If the order of your images has reversed, it is probably be cause you clicked on the A-Z/Z-A sorting in the tool bar. You can position the images any order you like in the collection by clicking on the image it's self, not the frame and draggig it to where you want. If that collection is synced to the cloud, the order in the cloud will change, too.

Additionally, the normal sort is by capture date which you can change in the tool bar Sort: selection. If you added a new image to the collection with a newer date than the rest, it will go to the top if sorting is on A-Z and Capture Date.

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.