Apple Macintosh PhotoFlash - Manual (Page 24)

Note: A catalog can contain only one thumbnail for each of its images. If you
attempt to drag several thumbnails to another catalog that already contains
some of the dragged thumbnails, PhotoFlash copies only those that are new.
Copying, cutting, and pasting thumbnails
When you copy or cut thumbnails and then paste them into a catalog,
PhotoFlash pastes them after any thumbnails that are currently in the catalog.
Therefore, pasting thumbnails within the same catalog isn’t useful unless you
want to move them to the end.
To move thumbnails between catalogs by cutting and pasting, first select the
thumbnails you want to move as described in “Selecting Thumbnails” earlier
in this chapter. Then follow these steps:
1 Choose Copy or Cut from the Edit menu.
2 Open the catalog you are moving the thumbnails to or activate its window.
3 Choose Paste from the Edit menu.
The thumbnails you copied appear, selected and in the order you selected
them, after the last thumbnail in the catalog.
Note: A catalog can contain only one thumbnail for each of its images. If you
attempt to paste thumbnails into a catalog that already contains some of the
same thumbnails, PhotoFlash pastes only those that are new
Sorting thumbnails
You can sort thumbnails in a catalog by filename or by date. Sorting occurs
only when you choose a PhotoFlash sort command from the Search menu.
You can change the thumbnail order any time you want by moving thumbnails
around as described in the previous section.
To sort a catalog’s thumbnails, follow these steps:
1 Make sure the catalog whose thumbnails you want to sort is in the frontmost window.
2 Choose Sort by Filename or Sort by Date from the Search menu.
PhotoFlash rearranges the catalog’s thumbnails by filename or by the date on
which each file was last modified. After sorting a catalog’s thumbnails, you
can rearrange them in any way you choose.
13 Using Catalogs