Thanks so much. You provided some key information, the most important of which (for the way I work) is the Include in Elements Organizer checkbox on the Save As dialog box. If I ever knew about that, I had forgotten, and indeed it is checked. So you’re right: that is a problem. What I don’t know is whether it has always been checked off. I cannot remember ever setting that option, so it would seem that every file I’ve edited, for as long as I can remember, has been marked for inclusion in the Organizer, with its location identified as that temporary working folder. Yet somehow, the majority of those edited files are finding their way into the Organizer in their permanent location. (I checked the file list for those now non-existent temporary folders, and sure enough, the Organizer shows a lot of cataloged, missing files there. I just uncatalogued all of them.) You’re correct in assuming that I am not using the Organizer to move files around; I’m using File Explorer. It’s where I do all work with files in Windows. By the time I began using the Organizer, I already had a couple of thousand photos organized in Windows file folders. I wanted to keep the organizational structure I already had; I did not want to be completely dependent on the Organizer for finding files. I didn’t think that this would be a problem, but obviously it is. I do not save the RAW files in the permanent folder. They are moved, with the rest of the work folder, into the archive folder, which is not a Watched folder. I don’t move them until after I have moved the edited JPEGs into their permanent location. I always use the Tree view of the Folder panel because the directory structure is important in the way I work. And finally: I tried to delete my original post because I discovered that some of the files that I thought were missing were not. I wanted to go back and figure out what my real problems were, and then ask just for the help I actually needed. Apparently there is no way to do that. It turns out that somehow, the Show Filename option got switched off in the Organizer (I swear I didn’t touch it!), and it took me a while to recognize that some of my “missing files” were showing, just unnamed. Because some file information was there (Date and star rating), I managed to overlook the fact that the file names were missing. And that is how I came to write “If I search within the Organizer by Filename, it finds those files, Information identifies the correct location, and it can display the file, but it still doesn’t show up when I select that folder from the Organizer file list.” So again you were right: it didn’t make any sense whatsoever. Because it wasn’t happening. (And thanks for the tip about the Go to folder command, which I also had no idea about.) So for me, it was a good thing that you didn’t see my edit sooner. You certainly helped me figure out much of what was going on. It may turn out to be all the help I need. If it isn’t I’ll post a new, more specific question.
... View more