lightroom images in folder but not subfolder

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November 6, 2025
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Lightroom classic v15 on mac. some photos show up in the folder grid view, completely editable, no issues, but when I go to the associated subfolder where that picture should be, it is not there. In finder it shows as an "orphaned" type individual file . Just moved data to a new large harddrive, but everything seems fine except this issue.

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JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Do you have smart previews for these images? If so, you can indeed edit them even though they are 'missing', and you will not see the infamous 'missing image' exclamation mark.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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chrisd4201094Author

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They do have smart previews, but they really aren't missing, they show a regular photo files in finder, just not associated with a sub folder. I have found a way to manually move them back into subfolders, just unclear how it happens in the first place.