Thanks Susan - but I can't get that to work. In a nutshell, here's what I've got:
- My "Pictures" folder on my HD has a folder called "LightroomMasters". Inside of there are folders for every year I imported back in 2015. So there's a 2004, a 2005, etc - all the way up to 2015. Each of those folders has a set of folders in it for each month - 01, 02, 03....11, 12 - and then each month folder has date folders in to for very day I took photos that month. Since 2015 I've imported all the pictures into their respective year folders (2016, 2017, etc...), which are located in the first level in the Pictures folder on my HD. Those folders don't have the same hierarchy. For example, inside the 2018 folder are just individual folders for each date - so there's no "extra level" of folders for each month. So each of those folders have 30 or 40 subfolders inside them, for each date I took pictures that year.
When I look at all these in the Navigator panel in LR, all the folder that were created from me since I've started using LR (2016 - 2019) are all rolled up into one folder for each year. If I expand those folders, then it shows a folder for each date I took pictures. That's great.
For all the photos I imported when I bought LR (2004 - 2015), they're all listed in the Navigator panel by their individual date folders, so there are 30 - 40 folders for each year from 2004 - 2015 - even though they're all rolled up into individual year folders in the "LightroomMasters" folder. If I use the instructions above, I can create a new folder called 2004, 2005, etc - except all the photos and individual date folders are already in a "year folder" (2004, 2005, etc) inside the "LightroomMasters" folder - it's just that "year folder" isn't showing up in the Navigator panel, even though it exists in the "LightroomMasters" folder, in the "Pictures" folder on my HD.
I tried just creating a new folder in the first level inside the "Pictures" folder called "2015", and then moved all the individual date folders from the "2015" folder inside "LightroomMasters" to the new "2015" folder out at the same level as "LightroomMasters". When I tried to look at the phots through the Navigator panel after the move all of th individual date folders were now grey - but they still allowed me to expand them. The pictures were all pixelated though - so it could "find" them, but it didn't appear to work properly. When I moved the individual date folders backing the "2015" folder inside "LightroomMasters" and went back and looked at them again through the Navigator panel all the pictures looked "normal" again.
Do I have to delete all of those individual date folders from 2004 - 2015 in the Navigator, then go move all the "year" folders (2004, 2005, 2006, etc.) FROM the "LightroomMasters" folder out 1 level to the first level inside the "Pictures" folder (where "2016", 2017", etc. are), and then re-import all those pictures again?
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