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Leanna30
Leanna30
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September 22, 2018
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Folders I don't want show in organiser tree view PSE15.

  • September 22, 2018
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I am using PSE 15 with Windows 8.1 and I have 2 related issues with the Organizer.

Using Folders - Tree view, I see folders that I do not want to see, ie Music, Network etc.  I do not have them as watched folders and never added them, but they show up and no idea how to remove the folders, they have no photos in them.  I tried adding a photo straight under these hoping the delete folder option would not stay greyed out but that didn't work,  

Also - and this is extremely frustrating, it has the pictures folder on twice, once as Pictures - All Photos (Which is where the photos I want in Organizer are) and I use, but it also has this folder again under the complete path - ie This PC, C, users, etc.  How do I get rid of this one. The delete folder option is greyed out. I actually tried within the path, ie at the All Photos folder to delete the folder (this level it is not grey) and this then deleted the folder from both places, and all the photos as well.

I do not want to reimport the photos until I have removed the duplicate folder path.

Thank you

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    MichelBParis
    MichelBParis
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    September 22, 2018

    Danger!

    I do not want to reimport the photos until I have removed the duplicate folder path.

    There are NO duplicate folder paths.

    That's how the Windows explorer works. The real location is shown under a folder in your user folder. The path in the folder tree to this location is long, so the explorer also displays it under a 'Pictures'  shortcut, but both ways link to the same physical image. If you delete one, the other will be deleted.

    From your questions I imagine you are going to have serious difficulties with the organizer. The organizer can issue about the same commands as the Windows explorer to manage folders, but its main principle is precisely to work independently from the explorer file structure, to hide it and work on your own virtual organization based on keywords, keywords hierarchies, albums and albums hierarchies, stacks, version sets etc. That very flexible organization results in super fast searches on many criteria which the explorer can't offer. Most organizer users don't waste their time in managing a folder hierarchy.Their organization is stored in catalogs.

    Using Folders - Tree view, I see folders that I do not want to see, ie Music, Network etc.  I do not have them as watched folders and never added them, but they show up and no idea how to remove the folders, they have no photos in them.  I tried adding a photo straight under these hoping the delete folder option would not stay greyed out but that didn't work, 

    The tree view in the left folders panel looks like the Windows explorer, but you have to understand that its purpose is to manage and display the files indexed in your current catalog. That's why only folders containing media files (photos, videos, music...) or subfolders with media files indexed in the catalog will be displayed. Folders with only media files in their subfolders are shown 'blank' without the small image icon. That means you have to expand the subfolders to see which files are present in the catalog.

    If you want to see all the subfolders of one folder even those without media files, right click on the top folder and choose to display all folders.

    The folders including media present by default instead of your own images may be used in many creation process. So, while you can display those media (audio etc.) it would be problematic to delete the files from the disk; deleting from the catalog (the links) is possible.

    Anyway, deleting files from the catalog does not save you significant disk space.

    It's important to understand how the left folders panel works. Most of your organization should not be done with that panel, but you probably know the golden rule of the organizer: "never delete, rename or move files of folders outside of the organizer". So when you have good reasons to work on the folders tree of your drives, always use the organizer, that is mainly the left folder panel.

    Leanna30
    Leanna30Author
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    September 22, 2018

    Thank you for your answer, but this question is nothing to do with Explorer folders, I know the paths lead to the same files.

    But in Organiser, I used to not see the same photo twice (I know it's not a duplicate) but know I see it under 2 different paths that both lead to the same photo.  

    For some reason the Organiser LHS panel is now showing me the same group of photos twice. Once in Pictures/My Photos and again with the whole path name that I cannot get rid of.

    And the other folders I mentioned, Music, Network etc also show on the Organiser LHS panel, and have no photos under them and I cannot get rid of them either.

    Thank youLeanne
    MichelBParis
    MichelBParis
    Legend
    September 22, 2018

    1 - media files imported by default as assets for creations.

    Don't delete them from drive. If you want them not to appear, delete them from catalog only. You have to display all subfolders until you can see the assets file. Don't complain if those have to be used in one of your projects.

    2 - Pictures under the Users folder. The real full location (full folders path) for your real pictures. Note that I don't store my pictures in the default 'Images' folder offered by the explorer, so they don't appear twice in my computer.

    Note that I have only placed a single file in this "images" folder shortcut (on top) to make it visible. That  'Images' explorer folder shortcut can contain other images not in my current catalog. (I am on a French Windows where "Images" replaces "Pictures")

    3 - Drive I: It's the I: drive in which I do store all my personal media. No risk to see the files twice, because the left panel shows the same folder tree than the explorer. The default explorer 'Images' folder shortcut on top of the tree would not show if I had not stored  a test image in it.

    Summary:

    If you don't want to see your photos in the two different ways the explorer offers, the true 'users' one and the 'Pictures' shortcut, don't store your photos in that default location. That can be in another drive (internal or external in my case) or in a different master folder of your choice. Most people don't care absolutely about seeing two ways to display the tree, they only leave one of both master folders collapsed in the left folders panel. However advanced users often advise strongly to store their photo library on a different master folder than the default explorer 'Pictures'. Many advantages...

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