"Create folder inside X" - Collapsing Folder panel

[Mark-Hazeldine]

When I right-click on a folder in the folder panel and I select "Create folder inside <FolderName>", the Folder panel immediately collapses up and then I need to expand it and scroll back down and find the folder I just created. This can get tedious because I have a very big folder tree.

Is there a way to stop this happening?

[GoldingD]

I cannot duplicate this on my rig.

Searching in the community, is not exactly bringing up any obvious solutions. Except for this one (so far)

• https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/lr-classic-9-removing-a-folder-collapse...

And the point in that discussion (very very old) is possible conflicting unused plug-ins.

Another on, that I doubt is very applicable, just involved a restart of LrC. (yes, the magic bullet)

[YannigVdW]

This behaviour has been annoying me to for a very long time.

The disappointment with v14 has finally brought me to report/contribute on this topic.

I do a lot of folder management in LrC. Sadly, this doesn't go very smoothly.

As reported by the OP, every time I create a new folder + include selected photos, the folder tree collapses. I need to reopen the folder tree and scroll to the right folder. Furthermore, most of the time some seemingly random folders seem to have been expanded.

If you need to move/organize a complete shoot, this get annoying pretty quickly.

• Windows 11 Pro 23H2
• Lightroom Classic 14.0.1
• Catalog is on a 4x4 m.2 SSD
• nVidia RTX4060 Ti 16GB studio drivers

Futhermore, this folder management seems to trigger another bug. I'm not sure that moving files to other folders is the cause, but it seems related. This bug just kicked in again right now after doing some folder management.

LrC is really starting to test my patience.

[johnrellis]

@YannigVdW, since this doesn't appear to affect many people and it's been happening since before LR 14, try resetting LR's preferences:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

LR sometimes soils its preferences file, and resetting it can fix all sorts of wonky behavior. That article explains how to restore the old preferences if resetting doesn't help.

[YannigVdW]

This has fixed my folder collapse issue, thanks.

FYI, I need to reset the preferences almost monthly now to fix all kinds of issues.