Folder Structure in LRCC Classic Not correct as I would expect

[robsirotaphoto]

As a long time Photoshop/Lightroom CC user I have noticed a strange happening with some of my imported files in the way the structure is displayed. Let me explain. Below is a picture of the folder structure as it sits on the drive:

So in LR I would expect to see 4 main top folders for this drive:

- CaptureOne

- Drone

- Lightroom

- MyMutt Program

However, what is see is this:

While things are working for the most part. Images/Folders inside the MyMutt Program folder are not showing up under a master folder like the rest. As you can see The Lightroom and CaptureOne and Drone folders are correct in their structure. And they are just imports of folders inside folders.

Any ideas?

As I was writing this I had 1 thought, does the LRCC folder structure not handle spaces in paths?

Thanks in advance.

[Just Shoot Me]

restart your Mac and the duplicate entries should go away.

[Conrad C · Accepted solution]

There may be nothing wrong except missing a subtlety of how Lightroom imports. Were these folders imported over time, one by one, from the bottom up; as opposed to from the top folder down?

Try this: If a folder is not under the correct folder, right-click it (or however you have context menus set up on your Mac, such as Control-click) and choose Show Parent Folder. If this starts to gather together folders that should be under the same hierarchy, then nothing was actually wrong, Lightroom was simply hiding intermediate folders to avoid cluttering up the tree.

[JohanElzenga]

Click on the Plus icon at the top of the Folder panel and choose 'Folder name only'. You've set this to showing the name and the path. Then on one or two folders you may have to right-click and choose 'Show Parent Folder' to see the entire hierarchy like it is on your disk.

[robsirotaphoto]

After doing a "Show Parent Folder" several times on the same folder.. moving up the chain it all looks good now... Thanks!

[robsirotaphoto]

Oh Crap... I went too far... Now I went too far and see all of my drives under the Mac, not the individual drives as in the image above. This is what I see now... Can I get it back to the way it was before?

[Rob_Cullen]

Right-click the top-most line in the Folder panel and-

[robsirotaphoto]

No luck. If I had the / parent, it does not bring the folder level back to the Drive level. It shows Volumes / I wanted those Volumes as the were in the old views above.

[Rob_Cullen]

Apology- for unhelpful advice.

A Windows user and not very knowing of Mac Drives/Volumes. I do not understand why drives show as Volumes.

[robsirotaphoto]

No Problem.. it's just baffling.. I know why but don't want it to... I want the old back

[JohanElzenga]

First right-click the ‘/‘ folder and choose 'Hide this parent', then do the same with the 'Volumes' and the 'User' folders. Restart Lightroom and your disks should show the correct way again.

[robsirotaphoto]

Excellent... That worked.. I did not think to restart....