Importing creates a subfolder and imports my specified folder into the subfolder ??

[timothyR0853]

I have LR Classic v11.3.1

I have an external 4TB drive that I use to import and maintain photos.

The structure:

LR Photos

-year

--day

This has been working fine for years...literally.

Recently, when I import it creates a subfolder year and then a subfolder under year for the day?

so it looks like this

2022-06-15     576 photos

2022-06-22     438 photos

-2022

--2022-06-22 438 photos

It is really driving my nuts for such a trivial issue but I cannot uncover the reasons nor fix the issue.

Any help?

[dj_paige]

You have (accidentally?) changed the Date Format field in the Import dialog box in the Destination Panel on the right. Change that back to what it was.

[timothyR0853]

That's just the entire issue isn't it...I have no freeping idea of what it was to change it back to.

[Rob_Cullen]

If your Import Preset is one that contains a forward slash [/] then you must select the 'Parent' folder ABOVE the 'Year' folders as the Destination.

In your situation: If you use "2022/06" preset AND you highlight "2022" as the destination folder you will get- "2022/2022/06"

If you instead highlight the folder ABOVE "2022" (eg. the {Pictures} folder), then you will correctly get "Pictures/2022/06", etc, for all imports.

Any of the presets with as [/] will automatically 'Find' its correct YEAR sub-folder in the "Pictures' heirarchy.

(My explanation not "as clear as mud"! I hope 🙂  )

[timothyR0853]

Sorry to be dense but what is an Import Preset?

And why now after literally years of proper operation?

[Rob_Cullen]

Sorry! So to be more correct I should have called it "Date Format". This is the setting that affects the Destination folder I am referring to. 

Your settings in this panel can be saved as an Import Preset (if you want consistency of settings.) Import Presets appear in the menu at the base of the Import dialog screen:

[dj_paige]

And why now after literally years of proper operation?
By @timothyR0853

The setting got changed accidentally.