New catalog is only seeing latest 3 folders

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April 5, 2020
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I've had to rebuild my computer and reinstall Lightroom 6.14.

I want to create a NEW catalog of all of my folders however, each time I try to do this Lightroom only imports the most current 3 folders.

How do I get it to import ALL folders?

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GoldingD

Legend

Not to be mean, cruel, condescending, BUT, those screen captures suck, what are you using to create them? Consider a third party utility for that purpose. For example this one:

https://picpick.app/en/

If you click on the Download, you will see a Free version exists. It is very good.

DdeGannes

Community Expert

I believe at the top left of the Import Dialog Source > File you should be able to get an option to "Include subfolders".See the screen capture. However, you may wish to check and see if there are subfolders included there that you may not wish to be imported.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

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dj_paige

Legend

One possibility is that the other folders don't have photos that Lightroom can import. Just showing a list of folders isn't enough information, we need to know what is in those folders.

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tonymuffinAuthor

Inspiring

hehehehe...that's cute!

Yes...there indeed are pictures in ALL of the folders...

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dj_paige

Legend

Show us the Windows Explorer view of one of the folders not imported.

Tony_See

Inspiring

Screenshots would help hugely here thanks Tony.

DdeGannes

Community Expert

You will need to provide some additional. E.g. Is there one Parent folder with all sub-folders in that structure? What selection are you making in the Import Dialog? Are you using the Add function or Copying to a new location?

On another note why do you need to create a new Catalog file? If you have a copy of the Catalog file from your previous computer and the Photos are in the same folder structure you can recover the way things were previously. See the link below for more info.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.