Keep pictures order in slideshow, out of Photos?

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Keep pictures order in slideshow, out of Photos?

I am desperately trying to create a slideshow - if possible avoiding the built-in PHOTOS app, old fashion - selecting all pics in a folder, and be able to change manually.

However, even though I have renamed the pics from 01 to 70 (thus expecting it to play in n umerical order as these appear in the folder), it seems to play randomly.

I have tried this with the PHOTOS app as well (even I want to avoid to depend on this...)

Is the only way to do so is to search a third party app, or can I expect macOS to be able to do what I am trying to do ?

I would have expected that to be really *basic* stuff, but apparently nope...

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 27, 2020 12:06 PM

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Answer 1

brenden dv

Community Specialist

Oct 31, 2020 8:04 AM in response to lanstrad1

Hello lanstrad1,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. We understand the importance of being able to create slideshows in Photos on your Mac, and it looks like you're having issues with the photos playing randomly.

To get started, please try the steps in the following link, and let us know if that helps:

Create slideshows in Photos on Mac

We hope this information is useful. Kind regards.

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Answer 2

Old Toad

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Oct 31, 2020 9:40 AM in response to lanstrad1

Try the followin:

1 - select the the photos in the order you want to show them,

2 - Control (right) - click on them and press the Option key.

3 - the Quicklook X Items will change to Slideshow X Items:

5 - selector Slideshow X Items and use the forward/back arrows on the keyboard to traverse thru the slides.

The slideshow, full screen, will start. You'll have a couple of options in the control bar that comes up:

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