Operating System:Mac
Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info):LR Classic CC 7.01
I store my master photo files on an external SSD. Being a good little LR acolyte, INSIDE LR I made a minor change to the name (and only the name) of a folder where I store some masters. All I did was right click the folder name, select rename, and change the name from 2011-2017 to 2011-2018. As you might assume, it's an upper level folder where I store individual years' photos. Prior to that I had added a folder for 2018 to the 2011-2017 folder, thus the name change.
First, the 2018 folder and its two sub folders went gray with question marks, then, when I tried to sync folders, the whole 2011-2018 folder structure when gray with question marks. Then I tried the "Find Missing Folder" routine. Still no change after I re-identified the folder in Finder. The entire 2011-2018 folder and all subfolders are greyed out with ?.
1. I did NOT move or rename anything at all in Finder. All of the above was done completely within LR. The name change that I did in LR is correctly reflected in Finder, so the change stuck.
2. All of the photos are still there in the Catalog. I am not looking just at previews. I know this because when I right click on a specific photo and "Show in Finder" it goes right to the correct master file on the external SSD.
So, in a sense, nothing has changed except now my main folder has greyed out folder names and question marks. But that should not be and I don't know what it means.
Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info):LR Classic CC 7.01
I store my master photo files on an external SSD. Being a good little LR acolyte, INSIDE LR I made a minor change to the name (and only the name) of a folder where I store some masters. All I did was right click the folder name, select rename, and change the name from 2011-2017 to 2011-2018. As you might assume, it's an upper level folder where I store individual years' photos. Prior to that I had added a folder for 2018 to the 2011-2017 folder, thus the name change.
First, the 2018 folder and its two sub folders went gray with question marks, then, when I tried to sync folders, the whole 2011-2018 folder structure when gray with question marks. Then I tried the "Find Missing Folder" routine. Still no change after I re-identified the folder in Finder. The entire 2011-2018 folder and all subfolders are greyed out with ?.
1. I did NOT move or rename anything at all in Finder. All of the above was done completely within LR. The name change that I did in LR is correctly reflected in Finder, so the change stuck.
2. All of the photos are still there in the Catalog. I am not looking just at previews. I know this because when I right click on a specific photo and "Show in Finder" it goes right to the correct master file on the external SSD.
So, in a sense, nothing has changed except now my main folder has greyed out folder names and question marks. But that should not be and I don't know what it means.