Changed folder name - now images are greyed out

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@defaultjp2pp0on9sos wrote:

I changed the name of my folder from summer to summer/fall and now all the images that were previously in there are greyed out and the name is still summer. The new folder summer/fall contains only images that were downloaded after I changed the name. How do I get the older images back? I still have to work on them.

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If you named the folder "summer/fall", then that explains it. A slash in a folder or file name is perfectly acceptable in MacOS, but Lightroom uses slashes as separators in paths. So by changing that name to "summer/fall", you made Lightroom think that there is a folder called "summer" which has a subfolder called "fall" in it. And because there is no such folder hierarchy in reality, Lightroom can no longer find these images and update their previews if necessary. 

To me, it sounds as you eventually did change the folder name with Explorer/Finder.

Make sure to manipulate file and folder names and locations from within LrC only.

Images greyed out is not usally a symptom of changing a folder name, unless you are trying to re-import the photos. Is that what you are doing? You don't mention re-importing. Please clarify. Please take us through what you did step-by-step and in detail, starting with the changing of the folder name, and mentioning all steps afterwards (how did you do that? where did you do that?), leaving nothing out.