File import questions and folder display questions

Question

I am running LR3 on Win 7 x64. I have a few questions.
I have a hard drive assigned to drive letter "B:\" Why doesn't the file imported see this drive in the list of drives? I have to use the "other drives" and browse every time that I want to add files from this disk. Other drives, including networked drives are fine.
When importing from a main folder and including subfolders, is there a way to filter files in any manner? I never want to import web galleries that I have made in bridge, for example. These files have very small JPG files, thumbnails and web images. Is there a way to exclude them form consideration whilst importing? Is there a way to reveal and show the thumbnails with the folder structure? I don't want to have to browse to every folder individually when I am trying to import all useful images from an entire disk. If LR would at least show the folder structure of the subfolders when you select photos from a top level folder, this would help. How can I do this?
In the library view of folders, how I filter on all files in one disk? I can select a folder under the disk and see just that folder, but LR will not allow me to select the entire disk. Is there a way to do this?
How can I display the entire folder structure in the laibrary panel? Some folders are not showing their top level folders that they are inside of. How do I reveal this information?
In the library module, how can I filter on file dimensions? I thought that I had seen this, but I can no longer find this. Sorting by file dimensions would also be an option to accomplish what I am trying to do. I need to delete all thumbnail images and tiny images from the catalog. Is there an easy way to do this?

Answer 1

No, because you don't import a whole disk, you only import images.  And the toplevel disk bar you see there is the disk where the top level folder is stored, not the entire disk.
Let me make this clear.   When I want to view an entire disk,  I am only wanting to select images that I have already imported, not the entire disk including images that I have NOT imported.
I am not sure if you dont understand what I am saying or what.  If you have folders of images inside a top level folder, you can easily select the top folder to see all subfolders that you have imported.  Why can't I select the disk as the top level folder to see all of the images that I have imported on that disk?
I have a cattelog that has images from 8 different disks.  I use removable drive bays so all 8 disks are not available at any given time.  I just want the ability to select all images that I have imported on a disk, just like you can do at the folder level.  I am at a loss as to why this is a problem.
My point about bridge was that LR is a far superior program for organizing images due to its database.  But LR is lacking in some features that could have easily been put into it.  If bridge can do the type of filtering that it does without a good database engine, then certainly LR could and should do it.  In no way do I want to use Bridge to manage cattelogs with 150,000 images.  That would be insane.  I have no issue with the fact that you have to import your images first to use LR.  It has to be this way to work with the database.  My issue is that the filtering is not nearly as comprehensive as bridge.
I dont need help with my workflow.  Back when I shot many of the images that I am importing now into LR, there was no lightroom.  My workflow was much different back then than it is now.  My comments were that I assumed that LR could do things that it cannot, not that I needed help with my current workflow.  Much of the issues that I have now with LR are due to the old workflow and trying to import only the raw images.