Isolating images in root of image catalog folder

Question

MacOS & LRC

Drive "LRC" with "Pictures" folder in root.

"Pictures" contains all the images in my Adobe LR catalog; 21000 images in @ 150 sub-folders

There are - accidentally - around 250 images in the "Pictures" folder.

The only way I can think of easily identifying these images and moving them to their rightful folders is:

in Finder Move the images to "LRC/bucket"

then re-import the images from"LRC/bucket" to "Pictures/anewfolder"

then re-assign them

but then LRC will then have @15001428 duplicate files

Am I being thick? As a user I feel barely scratch the surface of LRC.

Cheers 'n' Beers

richardplondon · Accepted Answer

There's a checkbox option controlling the Folders panel, "show photos in subfolders".

It can either be accessed from the Folder panel's own drop-down menu, or from the main menu

This lets you choose whether, when you click on a given folder, you see only the pictures directly inside that folder - or, those plus all those within its subfolders too.

So this option can isolate out for you, just those photos that you will want to move..

JohanElzenga · Answer

Do not reimport! The 250 images in the (MacOS?) Pictures folder can easily identified by looking in the Lightroom Classic folder panel. Select them all, then drag & drop them on any other folder in the folder panel to move them into that folder. If you mean the root of the other folder, then show them like @Thor Egil Leirtrø said and then do as I said.

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