Am I searching folder incorrectly?

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Hello all,

I'm running into a weird situation regarding folder search. Perhaps I've been doing it incorrectly or I can't seem to find an answer after searching online for hours. I'm currently using Lightroom Classic 13.0.1 on MacOS.

My pictures are organized in finder in the following structure displayed in the picture

If I want to find pictures under "sorted" folder, and I type in "sorted". See the result below:

The result doesn't display both "2019" and "2015" folders. While the search probably works as intended but it's a usability issue for me. Do I need to resort to include every single keyword in each folder/subfolder name in order to find all results corretly every time? My intended result is for lightroom to return any folder heirarchy in its entirety that contains the search term. Why? not all subfolders will contain information in the name from the parent folder. Lightroom certainly should be able to find and know where those pictures are based on the picture counts. I hope I'm clear in what I'm asking and hopefully someone smarter already resolved this issue. Or like someone once said.. "you're just holding it wrong." Thanks for any help or hints!

JohanElzenga · Answer

I don't see what the issue is. You search for 'sorted', so Lightroom shows you those folders that contain 'sorted' in the folder name. The subfolders don't contain that phrase, so they don't show. Completely as expected.

You can either click on the found 'To be sorted' folder, which will show you all the images in all its subfolders, or you can click on it and then click on the small 'x' in the search field to abandon the search. That will keep the 'To be sorted' folder selected, but now the subfolders can be selected as well because all folders show again.

Another way to do this is to use color labels. Mark the 'To be sorted' folder and all its subfolders with a certain color label and search on that label.

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