PhotoLab 6: "This folder does not contain any image"

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Trying out PhotoLab 6: I have an external drive with a large number of photographs - something over 10,000. When I first browse this disk via the PhotoLibrary tab, I get the message “This folder does not contain any image.” I fired up PhotoLab 5 to verify that the photos were all there, after which I noticed that some of the photos were starting to appear in the PhotoLab 6 PhotoLibrary. Other folders continued to give me the message saying there were no images. If I open and close the parent folder, the missing images seem to show up. Other than that, I haven’t spotted a clear cause for this problem.

Here’s the sequence I’m following:
(1) Click on parent folder - “no images”
(2) Click on subfolders - “no images”
(3) Close parent folder in PhotoLibrary - images now show up in the parent folder
(4) Images also show up in the subfolders

I see the same problem on the MacBook’s internal disk, so it apparently has nothing to do with having an external disk or with having a large number of images.

I see that, when the subfolders are failing to show any images, PhotoLibrary displays them as if they had subsubfolders (with a “>” in front of the subfolder icon). The “>” goes away when I follow that steps listed above and find the images displayed correctly.

I’m using an M1 MacBook Pro, running macOS Monterey, Version 10.6.

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My first thought is to double check you have reset the filters.

I have definitely done this in the past ie filter set to only show 5* images, and I navigate to a new folder that doesn’t have any 5* pictures so am shown no images.

It’s a simple fix if this is the cause, fingers crossed it is :crossed_fingers:

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Same problem. Quit the program and restarted and it works fine. But for how long? Seems like a bug to me.

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Hey there, Mac M1 user here and experiencing this annoying issue over and over again. Any solution? It’s driving me nuts.
Restart doesn’t work, neither renaming files.