Files are importing to wrong location

Question

I'm having a weird bug with Lightroom Classic right now that started about a week ago. I import photos pretty regurarly, but I think this started after the last MacOS upgrade. I'm on MacOS 13.3.1 and Lightroom 12.3. My file structure is like this 2023 > 05-May > Folder1. If I import Folder1 it should appear nested beneath the other two folders. Instead it's appearing completely outside of the folder hierachy in Lightroom. But if I attempt to drag the folder where it's supposed to be, I'm told that the files already exist there.

This is already kind of becoming a nightmare because I have a bunch of photos I need to import this week but I can't until the file structure is fixed, otherwise they'll be all over the place. I've double-checked my permissions, Lightroom has full disk access. I do use Dropbox and that's where all my photos are stored, however, I specifically have these locally on my machine. This is how I've managed my Lightroom catalogy for years and it's never been an issue before. Anyone have any other advice for what I should try?

Maddox29840015r8ct · Answer

UPDATE: I sort of solved the problem? I still can't import the way I did before, but if I right-click on a folder and hit "synchronize" it will import all the folders/files correctly. I'm guessing something changed with the last MacOS update about how Dropbox works, because the location of Dropbox did change I think. Not sure what other fun bugs I'm going to encounter, but seems like a workaround for now.

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