Isolating images in root of image catalog folder

[ncrompton]

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 @250 duplicate files

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

Cheers 'n' Beers 

[Thor Egil Leirtrø]

In the Image menu there is a selection for Show Pictures in Sub-folders (or something like that - I don't have the UI in front of me). Uncheck that selection and you will only see the pictures in the root folder when you select that one.

[ncrompton]

Marvelous, thank-you Thor

[JohanElzenga]

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.

[ncrompton]

Thank-you Johan.

[richardplondon · Accepted solution]

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..

[ncrompton]

Marvelous, thank-you Richard