Viewing folders in Lightroom Classic Library

Just some observations on folder schemes / image renaming: 

Personally, I don't rename the actual imported sourccefiles since other people will never see these. They will only see exports or prints - and the naming scheme for a given export can be part of its creation, perhaps differing for different purposes, perhaps changing over time as you prefer. But the imported file stays wherever originally put and under an unchanging name, which is far more efficient for e.g. backup.

Using month names results in an accidental sort sequence (besides being needlessly language-specific):

"April, August, December, February, January, July, June, March, May, November, October, September"

which is not very intuitive! Month number is far better IMO.

Of course even with numbered months, e.g. year-day-month will not sort chronologically - to make that worse, even if the year's distinguished correctly, "2022 0305" may be (confidently) presumed to either mean 5th March 2022, or 3rd May 2022. IMO the best way is the specific international ISO format: YYYY-MM-DD. The dashes indicate the recognised standard, and it's legible with less risk of error. A 4-digit year (2022) will not get confused for a day (22nd of the month).

So far as import / folder organisation: personally I assign LrC that whole task. Result is an auto "DD" subfolder (this could equally have had "YY-MM-DD" naming) for each new day's shooting, sitting suitably within "YYYY"/"MM" auto date folder scheme. Optionally, that folder name could be made more informative but it is worth remembering that anything descriptive later suffixed onto an automatic folder name, will not then get reflected in the eventual exports. However keywording etc identifying the shoot or whatever - I apply this in the batch as part of the import - can optionally then get reflected into these exports' metadata as well as optionally these exports' file naming, besides being helpful at the individual image level within the Catalog.

You can go to "All Photograhps" and sort by capture date, then you don't really need to search by folder name ... or you can go to "All Photographs" and use the filter bar to search by capture date. When you do find a photo from the date you want, you can right-click on it and select "Go to Folder in Library".

Honestly, the idea of keeping two pieces of information (in your case, location and capture date) in the file name is bound to cause problems of this sort. Better to keep the infomration separate, such as putting the location into metadata and not into folder names, and then you can search for the location using the metadata search in the Filter bar in LrC, and you can also search by folder names which now would be only the capture date.

Or -  Use an Import Preset that creates 'Dated' folders that will sort by 'Date'.

You can rename FOLDERs after the import process, to add a description.

The Filename Template Editor is only for FILES (not Folders).

Change the folder names, use a numeric as first characters in name, typically three digits, a sequance number. 

001 Cougar and Panther Creek Falls 

002 Lewis River Falls

003 Columbia Gorge

004 Marietta Falls

005 Kalama Falls

with or without dates 

I think that would involve a sequence number in the template.

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