Lighroom import sees and imports files from windows folder shorctuts in the added folder?

To further clarify >

This screenshot is from the same TEST folder.

I deleted the shortcut to prove that there is nothing "out of the ordinary here".

And - of course, as expected >  no 7k images in import dialoge.

Which takes us back to the initial title of this bug report > LRc is seeing everyghing in a shortcut, when it probably shouldn't!
And, no way to turn that off?

-T

Hi,
1 - Since when are shortcuts considered subfolders?

That is the why we have symbolic links (hard links) if we want to aggrigate or redirect.

These are OS navigation shortcuts. The one single shortuct in question is there to show that LRc sees it and pulls in everything from the shortcut location.

2 - This is a clean test folder, there is no other reason for it to exist than to show the issue.
Anything you see on that screenshot is directly pulled from the shortcut location. The 28 images in the TEST folder are there, just at the bottom of the 7000+ images in the import screen....

The other folder in there:  "THE SHORTCUT IS TO - C-WINDOWS - as you can see - LRC sees it"

Is there deliberately to tag for the screenshot you asked for.

It is empty, and its presence makes no difference to the test.

As per below screenshot > I deleted the empty folder you we'r wondering about > The problem still persists.

As for the question on why no checkbox for import subfolders.

There are no images in the subfolder - thus nothing to import - thus no reason for it to show?

Keep in mind when asking, I'm a veteran IT professiona and a veteran LRc user, I rarely make mistakes when dealing with and describing everyday things like the basic functionality in an OS.

You're referring to these as "shortcut icons" - in plural - post states clearly: 1 folder and 1 shortcut - to assist in troubleshooting for the screenshot requested.

LRc ignores empty folders.

LRc is not ignoring the windows shortcut. Hence we are seeing 7k images being found from the shortcut.

Cheers!

T.

I am suspecting that you have a corrupt preferences file. The preference file can get corrupted, leading to all sorts of odd behavior. Resetting the preference file is basically deleting the preference file (or relocating), and restarting LrC, whereupon LrC will recreate the preferences file. The preference file keeps track of all sorts of things, not just the preferences settings. Note that a side effect of doing this may/will return preference settings to defaults. Carefully read the following references.

• Reset Preferences |Adobe
• How do I reset Lightroom’s Preferences? | trhe Lightroom Queen

So, looking at that screenshot, two oddities

1. No option to include subfolders.

2. Looks like subfolders are being included.

Speaking of this check box:

If any question as to why this specific shortcut C:\windows\

This is to highlight the issue as a test - it is repeatable and therefore either a bug or intended functionality that has no "off" switch (which itself is a bug from my perspective because it has unintended concequences)

If why I used shortcuts in folders?
Windows quick links bar on left already full. I'm a working professional with hundreds of thousands of images, composites and video clips in a rabbit-hole-myrid of folders - sometimes I use shortcuts in folders to quickly jump around image folders, working project folders, export and finals folders etc... and back, or move content into other applications

It doesn't really matter why; it's the actual reason we have shortcuts in an OS in the first place.

In Z:\test\
28 images.
Standard import > add folder to catalogue. Z:\test\ selected
1 shortcut in the folder for c:\windows\

1 subfolder named to highlight the issue (no images inside it)
You can see on import source on left, TEST and empty subfolder
Below that, the shortcut which is greyed out but draws in 7k images it found....

As you can see LRc wants to pull in all image/video content from c:\windows\*.*

7592 images being imported... not 28.

Can you post a screenshot of your Import. The entire screen.