can't remove a folder

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September 9, 2023
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I am trying to remove a folder from my catalog and when I select that folder and clich remove nothing happens. I even tried to delete the original folder on my physical drive and that did not work. I subsequently created an new folder on my hard drive and selected find missing folder and nothing happend.

How do I delete this folder. It is called 2022 and I am using windows.

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Ivor30932621pb8rAuthor

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Thanks for all the replies.

I have physically deleted the folder and sub folder, including the files from my hard disk hence the ? next to the folder name.

I also tied to remove the subfolder. Nothing happens. I tried to go to the parent folder and still nothing happens.

I also tried optimize catalog and that also did not work.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Just to make sure that you tried this the correct way. Did you select the image in the Lightroom library grid, right clicked it and chose to remove it? Then did you right click on the subfolder in the Lightroom folder panel and chose to remove it? Same for the parent folder?

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Ivor30932621pb8rAuthor

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I tried to do that and r click the folder and files and select remove it but nothing happend and the files and folders remained in the lightroom catalog. So in the end I physically deleted the folder and files from my hard disk. However they still remain in the lightroom catalog and I cant get rid of them.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Try removing the subfolder first. If that does not work either, then remove the image in that subfolder and try again.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

You would normally see a warning message for this, but- Have you tried 'Removing' the one photo from the library first. ie. the file shown in the {Joel....} sub-folder, then remove the folders?

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

GoldingD

Legend

Right click on that folder and select to show parent folder. You might need to repeat that, to see the top level folder.

I suspect some folder duplication is occurring, and a capitalization issue might be occurring.

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Ivor30932621pb8rAuthor

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It initially had one file in it which I didn't care about. And I couldn't delete the folder so in order to troubleshoot the issue I actually deleted the physical folder and the file on my hard disk hence the ? Symbol.

I tried recreating The same folder which got rid of the ? But I was still unable to remove the folder.