LRc just started to download all folders from drives

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September 16, 2022
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I opened LRc for the first time in a while and, after a few minutes, it started to import every folder, from every connected drive - most of which are for Word, Excel, pdf's etc. I now have the full file structure (with hundreds of folders) from every drive, shown in Lightroom. I need to get rid of all of these irrelevant folders from LR (not from my drives of course!) and prevent this ever happening again.

How do I get back to having only the folders I imported photos from originally? Why did this happen and how do I prevent it happening again once I have things back to where they should be?

Windows

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DdeGannes

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Please post info about the version of Lightroom you are using and also for your operating system.

See the guidelines.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

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Edward251269027cxzAuthor

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Hi DdeGannes,

Thanks for responding.

Unbelievably, I had to reboot my PC this morning to solve another issue and, on restarting, all of the unwanted folders have disappeared from LRc! I am back to exactly where I wanted to be and the few photos I was importing at the time have successfully arrived in the library.

I find this, after being a PC user right back to MS-DOS around 1981 or so, to be beyond my conmprehension. I jsut hope the issue doesn't arise again.

Best wishes,

Ed

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