Uninstalling and reinstalling Lightroom

Thanks so much for the great feedback @cmgap, @Lumigraphics, @dj_paige and most recently @GoldingD

For someone who’s not too familiar with (and has apparently caused the malfunctioning of) the Lightroom Classic file structure, I feel like trying to remedy the file structure problem will be quite difficult/time consuming for me.

I took a look at the first link from GoldingD and this type of migration looks achievable for me, with the very minor inconvenience of re-labeling a number of folders to reflect the dates of photos contained therein. In any case, I’ll review the rest of the links as well for some thoughts on this and thanks again for them.

Should one of those approaches not work for some reason or another, I’ll revisit the forum and post my actual file structure per the comments of dj_paige.

Best

This is a great reply from @Lumigraphics . Re-installing will not affect folder structure.

But also @cmgap makes very good point as well, we need to need more about your folder structure issue. Please show us screen captures of how things appear now in the LrC folder panel and also provide more specific information about what you would like to see.

Thanks for this, I don't have a backup that pre-dates the change in file structure, so I'm out of luck there. I'll restore the picture folders, but don't know where TM will place those folders as the current structure will be different from the old one.