My folder list had grown to hundreds and it became too difficult to navigate the list and to back up the drive. So I consolidated the folders on the drive that I store images on, by year. Now I can use SynchToy to back up the individual years on different drives at a frequency that matches new content creation. Unfortunatly that meant I had to prompt, folder by folder, LR to find each folder. It took hours but the task is done. Now my folder list is nine items, 2007 through 2016, with sub folders by date reporting to each year. Ahhh. No more scrolling through 250 folders to get to one. I just twirl down the year and Bob's my uncle. Sweet. Except for some folders that when I was going through the relink process and right clicked on the folder (with a question mark) then lead Lr to the existing folder it would not link, giving me a message that the files are already in LR. But, in true Adobe style, not telling me where they are. I then deleted, in LR, all the LR folders I used as temps on my C drive, so all of my images are only in the drive that contains images. And emptied the cursed Windows "My Pictures" zombie folders that mysteriously and randomly populate themselves yet refuse to die. Still no joy. I then went in and deleted an offending question marked brayed out folder in LR ( losing keywords and developing info I suspect) and tried to import it from the hard drive, where it and it's content is clearly visible, again. No joy. I signed out of LR and logged back in. No joy. I right clicked on an individual image and prompted a show in Explorer, it points to the folder I just deleted. I can see the images in my image hard drive using another program, but LR refuses to import them, it says they are already there but does not show the folder as existing. Anyone got any ideas?
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