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Smitty2k1

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Please see attached image.

When I import photos, I put them on my local SSD. When I'm done editing I move them to a networked attached storage drive for long term storage (\\tower\pictures in image). However, somewhere along the way my Lightroom catalog began looking at this network path as two separate network paths "\\tower" and "\\TOWER". In reality, these are the same location, but LR splits them under two headers. It's annoying to look at and I'm wondering if there is any fix for it.
 

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This is known as the 'capitalization problem'. It occurs sometimes because Windows (and MacOS X) are case-insensitive, but Lightroom is case-sensitive. I've not yet seen it as a network drive problem (always as a local folder problem), but the principle is the same and the solution should also be the same. You can search for it on this forum; there are several threads about it which explain it in more detail. Here's how you should be able to solve it:

Create a temporary folder on your network drive. Call it anything you like, so let's say 'TEMP'. Now right-click on the '2017' folder shown in the TOWER drive, and choose 'Update Folder Location'. In the dialog that follows, navigate to the TEMP folder and select it. The '2017' folder on the TOWER drive should disappear, and the TEMP folder should appear. It will show all images as missing, but don't worry about that.

Now right-click on the TEMP folder and choose 'Update Folder Location' again. Navigate to the '2017' folder on your 'tower' drive and select it. This should make the '2017' folder appear again (and no images missing), but now on the correct 'tower' drive, not on the 'TOWER' drive.

If this worked as expected, then repeat this with the '2016' and '2015-08-25' folders (you can use the same TEMP folder). That should make the entire 'TOWER' drive disappear from Lightroom completely.
 
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