Drag and drop iPhoto

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I don't understand why I can't drag and drop photos around within albums to rearrange them into the order I want them. I import them from my camera, and they become an 'event' as expected. I have tried to drag them around within the event to change the order in which they appear but it's not possible. So then I think maybe they have to be in an album before I can do that, so I put them into an album and I still can't move them around within the album. It's not a smart album.
 
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Within an album you should be able to drag them around as you like. I have no explanation for why you can't other than to say that that's not normal behaviour. I just checked one of my albums and I can certainly rearrange things within it.

Events as you've worked out are views based on EXIF time taken information and thus can't be rearranged, but albums are free-form.
 
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Check the sort parameters when in the Album. You need View, Sort Photos, Manually.
 

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