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Tim Gilp

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I have admittedly been experimenting with folders. Sometimes dipping into the hard drive to reconfigure them as it seems so much easier than LR. Then having to find the photo once I go back into LR usually time consuming but successful. However I now have a couple of sub folders on the hard drive that LR isn’t picking up. The images are in there and LR can see them as a collective but I want it to see the sub-folders . How can I do this please ?
 
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If Lightroom sees their parent folder, all you have to do is click on the little arrow in front of that parent folder to reveal its subfolders.
 
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Hi Tim, have you tried syncing the folder from LR?

On library module, in the folders pane, right click on the folder you want to sync and select synchronize.

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Umberto Cocca said:
Hi Tim, have you tried syncing the folder from LR?

On library module, in the folders pane, right click on the folder you want to sync and select synchronize.

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Synchronize folder is not useful here. If I understand him correctly, the OP says that he sees the images in Lightroom. It's just that he sees them 'as a collective' and he wants to see them in their subfolders.
 
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If dipping into the hard drive to reconfigure folders seems easier but is time consuming to find them later, why not just do it in LR in the first place and prevent this from happening. What exactly are you reconfiguring?
 
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JohanElzenga said:
Not really. I think the parent folder is simply collapsed in the folder panel.
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I seldom do anything outside of LR. Does this mean the OP is moving them into others using the OS?
 
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Zenon said:
I seldom do anything outside of LR. Does this mean the OP is moving them into others using the OS?
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No, he's not moving anything. I think it is much simpler than that. It's just a matter of setting the view (collapsed or expanded).

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Thanks. I've collapsed/expanded before. I was curious to what what was happening outside of LR. Opening the ? and re-establishing the link corrects it, if that is what it needs. Not the case here but the word reconfigure caught my interest.
 
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