Oh yes: I also have LR set to display only the directory name, not the entire directory path, in the Folders panel. That might be affecting dynamic ordering as well.
I doubt this problem has anything to do with an engineering decision trying to "help you". It's probably just a consequence of the way LR parses the directory names and orders the tree dynamically. When you make changes that affect the whole tree, it changes the parsing and display calculations; the ordering likely bubbles up the most recent changes to the top of the list as a side effect. G > On Jan 2, 2024, at 6:19 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: > > Hmm. I have, at present, three physical volumes comprising the media that LR > Classic 13.1 has imported original files from in that list in the Folders > panel. They never change place on the Folders panel. > > The reason for this is probably because, when I set them up, I drilled down > through the directory hierarchy on the volumes to the root of the photo > storage directory trees and then told LR to "Hide Parent Directory" on all > folder hierarchies above (or below, per your perspective) that point. So I > don't see, in LR, all the other directories on the volumes; only the entire > directory of original image files starting at its local root. Any other > directory/file manipulations on these volumes is therefore invisible to LR > Classic, and cannot reorder the placement of the volumes in the Folders > listing. There's no need to see the entire directory tree structure of the > import volumes, only the directory trees from which you have imported files, > which should always have a single root.. that's my logic behind setting it up > this way. > > That's my conjecture anyway. Try it. :D > > G > >> On Jan 1, 2024, at 8:59 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Jan 1, 2024, at 8:55 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> I'm running Lightroom Classic 13. Over on the left side there is a >>> "Folders" panel, with the highest level of hierarchy being the hard drives. >>> I've got three drives Mac SSD, photo_ba, and photo_bb. The problem is that >>> whenever I change something on one of the drives, it's position in the >>> panel moves to the top. So, while I'm going through, cleaning up my >>> catalog, moving folders from the primary drive to the longer term storage, >>> the order of the drives in the panel keeps shifting around. My google fu >>> is just not strong enough to figure out how to get it to JUST STOP THAT. >> >> Edit, it's even worse than that, it will also collapse the display of a >> drive when it makes a change. So things keep changing out from under me, and >> moving around, often when I'm trying to move a folder to them. >> >> Arrrgghhhh! Why do they insist on having software "help" me, when I don't >> ask it to? -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
