Custom order of photos in folders has been corrupted

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July 31, 2020
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I have just noticed that my folders -- all of which I arrange into Custom Order -- no longer have their photos in the custom orders that I left them in. They are not totally scrambled, but maybe 10% to 20% of the photos are in the wrong places. I think this affects all of my folders (20 years worth of images). I am not sure when this happened – presumably during a recent update. Collections on the other hand seem to still have their photos in the correct order.

Have other people noticed this?

This is on Mac.

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Correct answer johnrellis

There's a long-standing bug where LR will start losing the custom order of collections or folders where you've made a large number of changes to the custom order. The bug strikes after you've made a certain number of changes to a collection or folder, and other collections or folders aren't affected. Please review the bug report:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-major-bug-with-custom-sort-order

Please add your constructive opinion and details of your issue to the bug report, and be sure to click Me Too and Follow in the upper-right corner. That will make it a little more likely that Adobe will prioritize a fix, and you'll be notified when the bug's status changes. (Safari users, uncheck the option Safari > Preferences > Privacy > Prevent Cross-Site Tracking or use Chrome or Firefox.)

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johnrellis

Legend

"I've got exactly the same issue, any signs of a resolution? Ive got 15 years of work that is now completely messed up in the folders thay are filed in. Its a shocker."

As I mentioned in reply to your other post, LR 10 has some serious bugs with custom order. Your options:

- Live with the bugs in LR 10.

- Roll back to LR 9.4, resuming work with the copy of the LR 9 catalog that was saved when you upgraded to LR 10. But you'll lose the work you've done in LR 10, unless you do potentially lots of semi-manual work to transfer edits and metadata changes back to LR 9.

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Glen Howey

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I've got exactly the same issue, any signs of a resolution? Ive got 15 years of work that is now completely messed up in the folders thay are filed in. Its a shocker.

johnrellisCorrect answer

Legend

There's a long-standing bug where LR will start losing the custom order of collections or folders where you've made a large number of changes to the custom order. The bug strikes after you've made a certain number of changes to a collection or folder, and other collections or folders aren't affected. Please review the bug report:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-major-bug-with-custom-sort-order

Please add your constructive opinion and details of your issue to the bug report, and be sure to click Me Too and Follow in the upper-right corner. That will make it a little more likely that Adobe will prioritize a fix, and you'll be notified when the bug's status changes. (Safari users, uncheck the option Safari > Preferences > Privacy > Prevent Cross-Site Tracking or use Chrome or Firefox.)

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GoldingD

Legend

deleated, my bad.

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Pmatt FAuthor

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I am talking about the order of the photos in the folders, not the order of the folders, which of course is alphabetical.

I have just edited my original post to make this more clear.

Just Shoot Me

Legend

Thanks.

You would be better off using a Numbered File Name structure by adding something like 01, 02 and so on, to the front of the file name to keep them ion the order you want.

Just Shoot Me

Legend

You are not talking about Folders. Folder in LrC are always displayed in Alphabetical order.

So what are you asking about? It is not the custom order of FOLDERS.