Lightroom added lots of folders with no images

[bmdean1953@gmail.com]

My Lightroom added lots of folders from my hardrive that I didn't import into lightroom and do  not contain images. I can't remove these folders and can't find the folders I once had with images.

[Rob_Cullen]

Nothing you have said makes sense.

Which Version of Lightroom?

Where do you see "Folders"?

Nothing is added unless you 'Import'. And 'Import' will only add Photos to a catalog.

Make a screen-clip to show us what you are seeing. It can help get you an answer.

[bmdean1953@gmail.com]

All the folders on this drive under Folders have taken non image folders from my hard drive. I have highlighted some on the attached screen shot.

The folders do not have any images on them, but I can't delete those folders.

I did not intentionally import these folders, it is something that has happened since Version 10.

I've checked the image folders I do have on this drive, they have images when viewed in explorer but don't show under the Lightroom folders

Cheers

Brian

 

[Rob_Cullen]

Dropbox may be the problem!

Not a good idea to have photos in Dropbox folders. If the photos are not on the local hard-drive Lightroom will not find them. (Is it possible that Dropbox has 'moved' the photos off 'Local' and into offline storage only?

Also I see the 'Missing Photos' is showing 63299 missing- Do you know the reason for this?