Facebook photo albums

[Howard]

Kind of out of options, so here we are.

I have a bunch of photos uploaded into a vacation album. I uploaded the photos in batches. I want to have them sorted by chronological order (date taken), instead of by date uploaded, but they aren't showing that way. I did select the option "Order photos by the date they were taken" but it doesn't do anything.

FWIW, the photos came from different cameras. People appear to be having the same trouble as I. Any ideas?

 

[Mixolydian]

Cue the "Facebook sucks/I don't use Facebook" posts in 3...2...1...

 

[amicold]

Kind of out of options, so here we are.

I have a bunch of photos uploaded into a vacation album. I uploaded the photos in batches. I want to have them sorted by chronological order (date taken), instead of by date uploaded, but they aren't showing that way. I did select the option "Order photos by the date they were taken" but it doesn't do anything.

FWIW, the photos came from different cameras. People appear to be having the same trouble as I. Any ideas?

Obvious but do they have EXIF data? Option 2 is throw them all in a folder locally and sort them by date taken then upload to another album in proper order.

 

[nickbits]

I think it assumes that the date uploaded is the date taken. It doesn't use exif data. I do think you can manually change the date taken date on each photo but that sounds like a nightmare.

 

[MongGrel]

Cue the "Facebook sucks/I don't use Facebook" posts in 3...2...1...

I do use facebook, but only look at it about once a week.

If that often.

 

[Howard]

Obvious but do they have EXIF data? Option 2 is throw them all in a folder locally and sort them by date taken then upload to another album in proper order.

Yes, all the photos have the proper EXIF data, but I heard Facebook strips the data anyway.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah think you'll probably need to reorder them manually unfortunately.

 

[T9D]

Yup gotta do it manually. Facebook is crap coded in so many ways. I want to punch the website daily. Every time I get pissed about how something is totally lame on there I do a search and tons of other people complaining about the same thing. I'd expect this kind of coding and design from 1998 not 2014.

 

[rh71]

Literally just did this a few hours ago... uploaded some pics into an album, then added a pic that showed up as last but we wanted it back with the others in sequence.

"Order photos by the date they were taken" worked (I'm on Chrome). Did it try to do it and put them in the wrong order or did it not do anything at all? If the latter, maybe browser compatibility issues with javascript and buttons working?

Maybe being from multiple cameras also may play a role here.

 

[T9D]

Literally just did this a few hours ago... uploaded some pics into an album, then added a pic that showed up as last but we wanted it back with the others in sequence.

"Order photos by the date they were taken" worked (I'm on Chrome). Did it try to do it and put them in the wrong order or did it not do anything at all? If the latter, maybe browser compatibility issues with javascript and buttons working?

Maybe being from multiple cameras also may play a role here.

Where are you seeing this? Doesn't exist on mine. Do you mean on the upload page? Because he already uploaded them, after they are uploaded I've never seen a way to change the order without doing it manually. I just checked right now too.

 

[Howard]

Literally just did this a few hours ago... uploaded some pics into an album, then added a pic that showed up as last but we wanted it back with the others in sequence.

"Order photos by the date they were taken" worked (I'm on Chrome). Did it try to do it and put them in the wrong order or did it not do anything at all? If the latter, maybe browser compatibility issues with javascript and buttons working?

Maybe being from multiple cameras also may play a role here.

The sorting worked the first time I did it, but after the next upload, the sort function broke.

 

[rh71]

Where are you seeing this? Doesn't exist on mine. Do you mean on the upload page? Because he already uploaded them, after they are uploaded I've never seen a way to change the order without doing it manually. I just checked right now too.

After selecting the pics to upload, it brings up a grid with progress of each pic. It was on that screen that you can choose to add more. I didn't leave that page at the point that I saw it (I think there was a Post Now button seen at the bottom). Maybe you can re-do the album from the beginning and try it.