Imported Photos misplaced by the Import User Preset

Thanks for this suggestion.

Yes My Structure is By Decade, By Year, By Month, By Day. I have used this structure since starting using Lightroom more than a decade ago. My Import Script has been Static except for ammending the Target Month at the beginning of the new month.

I set up an import using my standard import script.

This clearly points to the exact month within my structure as normal.

This imports outside the Catalogue Structure within Lightroom.

Right at the Top??

It is not here as was normal and what it was instructed to do.

However it has set everything exactly as it should in the folder structure in Windows.

Now I cannot drag it from the wrong place to the correct place in Lightroom as it is already where it should be at folder level.

I have gone back and repeated this whole chain of events not using my import script but setting up a manual import that does the same process of folders etc.

This still exhibits the same erroneous behaviour.

This looks like it could be the ‘capitalization problem’. Basically, what happens is that you have two different folders, one called ‘XXXX’ (or a combination of upper- and lower cast) and the other one called ‘xxxx’. In other words, the names are the same, except for the capitalisation of at least one letter. Because MacOS and Windows are case-insensitive, your OS sees those two folders as one and the same folder and so it deals with this without you even being aware of it. You will only see one single folder in the Mac Finder or Windows Explorer!!! But Lightroom is case-sensitive, so Lightroom does see two different folders. Please be aware that this folder is not necessarily the folder you are looking at. It could also be a parent folder (that Lightroom may not show). Here's how to fix the problem. https://www.lightroomqueen.com/capitalization-catalog-error/

If whatyou are after is a folder per year followed by a folder per month followed by a folder per day, what don’t you just LrC do that for you automatically using the “By Date” import destination mode.  That’s what it is there for.

If you are using a custom script then I think you’ll need to share it to the forum so someone knowledgable of such things can look it over.

If you are using an import preset, we need to see what it is.  In the Import Dialog, slect the preset name along the bottom.  Then give us a screen shot  of the “Destination Panel”