[Leica] Lightroom and folders

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

Lightroom must have been designed for an Apple. It seems to assume
that you do not know what you want to do, so even if you use the menus
to ask it to do something, it won't.

I have organized my library by year and month.

2007
-01Jan07
-02Feb07

etc etc.

Now I created a folder, using the menus in Lightroom, called 2008.

Then I created a folder, using the menus in Lightroom, called 01Jan08

Then I chose 01Jan08, which is inside 2008, as the folder to import my card 
to.

I used Lightroom to navigate there.

But ...

On my library overview, there is no 2008. There is 2004, 2005, 2006,
2007 all organized the way I described above, but then there is
01Jan08 on the same level as the years (2004, ... 2007). 2008 doesn't
show it.

I go into the Lightroom library using the command-line, and sure
enough, 2008 is there and 01Jan08 is embedded within 2008. The
structure on the disk is ok, but that structure is not reflected in
the library view in Lightroom.

I am guessing that the other years were ok because they were created
from similar structures on my harddisk. My scans were organized in the
same way as I am trying to organize my Lighroom archive.

I used to say that they only reason I still use Windows for about 1%
of my work instead of Linux was because of Photoshop. The GIMP in
Linux is like using Photoshop 5.5 (8-bit editing).

But now with Lightzone (http://www.lightcrafts.com) available on Linux
... I am just about ready to toss out Windows and Photoshop
altogether. It is costing me too much money in terms of time. Before
only Windows was flaky. Now Photoshop has really joined the ranks of
alpha-grade applications being panhandled as prime time editions.

Does anyone know how I can get 2008 to show up in my Library view? I
can't create a folder called 2008 and move 01Jan08 into it because
2008 is already there. You just can't see it.

Daniel