Lightroom showing folders bot in root and subfolder

The posting by JohanEl54  will probably solve and answer your issue.

I will still add the following

Your screenshot does not show the entire story, as it does not show the top iof the file structure your catalog is in, perhaps just the way you cropped the screenshot. but to make sure.

My basic question is, are you seeing in the folder panel the actual top parent folder? And then, all the sub folders? Do you have any folder location issues?

In LR click on Edit then Catalog settings

Click on Show (location)

Windows File Explorer will come up with folder in question highlighted

You might want to look in that folder and inspect the sub-folder structure.

In LR , in the folder panel, at the top line, keep selecting show parent folder until the above folder is shown

If the parent folder has a ? next to it, fix that, also Inspect for any missing folders (?)

This is a well-known problem, called the 'Capitalisation problem'. Basically, what happens is that you have two different folders, one called ‘XXXX’ and the other one called ‘xxxx’. In other words, the names are the same, except for the capitalisation. 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 version. But Lightroom is case-sensitive, so Lightroom does see two different folders. In your case the folder in question could be “vrienden en familie”, but it could also be a parent folder of that one.

Here's how to fix the problem:

1. Backup your catalog!

2. Try to reveal the parent folder of these root folders. Right-click on one of them and choose ‘Show Parent Folder’. If that works, follow the rest of this procedure on this parent folder. If you get an error message, then repeat the next steps for each double root folder.

3. Create a folder directly on the root of your internal hard drive, call it whatever you want, say "Capitals Fix". Note: do this in Windows Explorer/Macintosh Finder, not in Lightroom.

4. Right-click on the first double root folder in the Lightroom Folders Panel and select "Update Folder Location". In the file browser that then opens, browse to and select the "Capitals Fix" folder.

5. Don't be alarmed as the folder will disappear from the Folders Panel, "Capitals Fix" will appear but all the sub-folders that were listed under this folder will now have "?" marks.

6. Now right-click on "Capitals Fix" in the Folders Panel, and again choose" Update Folder Location". This time browse to and select the correct folder. You may get a "Merge" dialog box, select "Merge" and everything should resolve itself.

What OS are you using?

There is a bug someplace dealing with Capitalization on Mac OS X. Are you using a Mac?

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