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December 16, 2024
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Another LRCC missing folder question.

  • December 16, 2024
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Hello

 

I am trying to move a folder from one parent folder to another but LR is telling me the folder already exists in the destination folder and does not allow the move..

 

The folder is named by a date, 2022-07-03 and I want to move it into that years images.  The parent folder is just called 2022.

 

There is a folder with images in the correct location in my library but is does not show up in my LR folder list.

 

The folder I want to move is also in my Library and shows the same images as the other folder.  I can search "All Im ages for an image from the folder but only the one is found, in the folder I want to move!.

 

If I try to import the images from the first folder to the folder supposed to be in the Library already, they  cannot be selected and on the destinations side, the folder shows as being in place.

 

To try a work around, I imported an image into the destination folder, gone to the file location and it is the only image in that folder.  However, when i then tried to move the images from folder to folder, LR tells me it cannot move them because they are already in that folder.  They do not show in the folder and an image search does not find them in that folder.

 

Somewhat confusing!

 

Any ideas how I can find the missing folder/Images or bring it back into LRCC

 

Many thanks

 

Rob

 

Windows 11 with Adobe LRCC  and full Creative Cloud

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JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 17, 2024
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There is a folder with images in the correct location in my library but is does not show up in my LR folder list.

 

By @Hollies17435284


That explains what you are experiencing. Lightroom is not a file browser, it is a database application. If a folder does not contain images that are registered in the database (imported in Lightroom), then it will not show that folder. However, if a folder with the same name exists in the new parent folder, then you cannot move a certain folder into that parent, because your OS does not allow two folders with the same name to be in the same location. If you did this in the MacOS Finder or Windows Explorer, you would get the question if you want to overwrite that existing folder, but Lightroom never overwrites files or folders. It simply refuses to carry out the move in that case.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
DdeGannes
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 17, 2024

@Hollies17435284 , just an observation there is no current Adobe application known as LRCC, the current version are Lightroom Classic which requires your original images stored on your Computer drives in folders (internal or external drives) , known as LrC and there is Lightroom which uploads your original images to Adobe Creative Cloud, known as Lr (Cloudy or Desktop)..

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.
dj_paige
Legend
December 17, 2024

So I'm going to refer to the folder you want to move as Folder A, and the place you want it to be as Folder B.

 

in the LrC Folder Panel, right click on Folder A, select Update Folder Location. Then select folder B from the dialog box that appears.

 

this works because all of the photos are in both folders, so it can't be a move. It's really more like telling LrC to "look over there at Folder B".