How do you collapse subfolders in LR into a single folder and rename photos in the subfolder?

[BR1978]

I was recently on a trip and created 6-7 subfolders under a main folder in photos in MS windows OS 7.0. I tried to rename one subfolder with some videos yesterday, but it would not rename the files, perhaps because I tried to rename videos as well as jpg's?  When I try to rename folders in LR, does it rename the Windows file of the photo in the Windows photo folder or only change the name of the photo in LR metadata? I want to maintain the name of the subfolder on each photo within the subfolder so when I merge the entire 300-400 vacation photos into one folder, I can create a slide show in collections, where I have video as well as still files. If I merge the subfolders in the Windows photo folder, I suspect I will lose all the edits I made to the all the photos in the subfolders/

[Bani Verma]

Moving this query to Lightroom community.

[JohanElzenga]

I’m not sure I understand your question. When you rename a folder, you rename a folder. Files inside that folder will not be renamed by this action. Renaming files can be done in Lightroom too, but that has nothing to do with renaming a folder.

[dj_paige]

BR1978  wrote

I want to maintain the name of the subfolder on each photo within the subfolder so when I merge the entire 300-400 vacation photos into one folder, I can create a slide show in collections, where I have video as well as still files. If I merge the subfolders in the Windows photo folder, I suspect I will lose all the edits I made to the all the photos in the subfolders/

You use collections for this purpose, not folders. Make your life simple instead of trying to get folders the way you want, leave the folders as they are and place all of the desired photos into a collection.

[Joe Foe Toe]

To expand on what dj_paige​ said: you can move and rename folders in Lightroom (and in Lightroom only) without losing your development, but it's not the right way to organize your work. For this you want to use collections. You can put an image into one, or any number of collections and move them around at will, or remove them from a collection without losing your development. You can rename collections and reorganize them. A moment's thought will tell you the power of this: you can create a collection "Wedding Slideshow" of just the images you want in the slideshow - you aren't restricted by whatever your original folder arrangement is. (I agree with most who say to keep original/disk folders organized by date and nothing else.)

[Vishaljak9728]

Yes