Import not finding photos in Explorer

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October 27, 2022
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I went to import a photo and LR isn't seeing it. Per the first screenshot, the selected photo is in the D drive in the Documents/_website_art/_img folder. The name of the file is "mb_atty_&_e_houston_sts_ME." Per the 2nd screenshot, the 1st 3 files in the 2nd to last row have similar names but none are this file. None of the files beginning with "mb" that live in the parent "_img" folder are showing up in LR; all the ones in LR are in a subfolder called "_thumbs." Why isn't LR showing the "mb..." files in the parent _img folder?

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dj_paige

Legend

I don't really see a connection between your two screen captures. in the first one, all the file names end with _ME while in the second screen capture, all the file names have something after _ME. So I don't think these are the right screen captures, or something else is wrong.

bartonlewAuthor

Legend

What I was trying to show is that when I Import, I am selecting the "_img" folder, which contains the files ending in "ME." The files ending in something after ME are thumbs and in a subfolder called "thumbs." My understanding is that LR shows all image files in a parent folder and their subfolders, so that's why you are seeing the files with something after "ME." But I wasn't seeing the images just ending in "ME" - until I changed the Sort option from Off to File Name. Now it looks like everything is there.