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No, this is not how it is supposed to look like. Is your external disk called 'Public'? If so, then hide the 'Volumes' folder and restart Lightroom. Now the disk should show as a disk, instead of as a folder on your internal hard disk.
I don't think that will work. AFAIK, you only get to see the 'Hide This Parent' menu on a top folder.Following on from Victoria's comments, there are other folders shown that could be hidden. Right click on the folder "Shared Pictures" and select "Hide Parent" from the context menu. that should hide every folder showing above that has the image count of "94056"
Along the way, someone said that it is better to do my editing in 'Collections' rather than in 'Folders'. What is the reason for this? I used to use Collections, but it is so slow when I rename the individual 'collections' names! The 'beachball' spins forever each time I make a change!
You are correct. You have to do "Hide this parent" with each folder from the to down to this folder "Shared Pictures"I don't think that will work. AFAIK, you only get to see the 'Hide This Parent' menu on a top folder.
It was probably me that made that recommendation. An image can exist in one and only one folder in the file system. You can assign the same image to many collection and that all reference back to the same image in the same folder. Renaming Collection should be faster since it is a simple database entry in the catalog file. Renaming a folder in Lightroom should be slower since it involves interacting with the file system (changing the name there) and then updating the database entry in the catalog file.Along the way, someone said that it is better to do my editing in 'Collections' rather than in 'Folders'. What is the reason for this? I used to use Collections, but it is so slow when I rename the individual 'collections' names! The 'beachball' spins forever each time I make a change! In 'Folders', there is no delay at all.
However, when I went from collection to collection and purged all the asterisks from them, the beachball would spin after each operation, for a long time! I estimate that it should have taken less than an hour to delete the asterisks, but instead it took about 4 hours!