I tried moving directory trees and lightroom lost them
I've been avoiding the ransomware version of lightroom for years but in the past couple of weeks was forced to make the change. At first it seemed to work a bit faster, things that had broken over time in LR6 (like maps) were working again. Then I tried to move some directory trees within lightroom. I learned long ago that if you are moving files you have to do it in lightroom or lightroom can't find them, though it's straightforward to fix.
I'm running macOS Catalina 10.15.7 on a Mac Pro
The system is installed on a SATA 1TB SSD
My home directory is installed on a 2TB Apple RAID which is symlinked from the system drive under /Users
I work on freshly imported files on the SSD under ~/photos_fresh
For example the files from my paid photo job Friday night were in
~/photos_fresh/220211_bandname
My photos of wild turkeys from my bike ride today were in
~/photos_fresh/220213_turkeys
When I am done working on files and no longer need SSD speed for working on them I move them to my primary spinny and my two backup locations. For example
/Volumes/photo_ab/pictures_2022a/2202/220213_turkeys
for the primary storage where Lightroom would see it.
Lightroom would make the top level directory where I expected it, but all of the files under it would end up so that I could only find them someplace like
/Volumes/photo_ab/Volumes/ssd_raid/Users/lrc/photos_fresh/220213_turkeys
I wouldn't even be able to see the files under
~/photos_fresh/220213_turkeys
It is like it doesn't under stand basic file structure and linkages and tries to duplicate the entire file tree back to root
This is not good. This is bad. This is double double plus ungood levels of bad.
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