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I upgraded to 1.1, thereafter every time I import photos thru Lightroom, I can view all these new files in the Lightroom folders section as normal; however, the new files/folders are not present when trying to view them in the standard Windows Explorer thru My Computer; when I archived My Photos to external drive they did not archive over, so they are effectively missing from the hard drive. However, when I choose right click show in Explorer via Lightroom, hey presto they're there and I can access them, copy to other folders etc. I have Windows XP. This is driving me nuts, I'd be grateful for any help. It never happened with 1.0. Thanks.

Peter,
I'm not clear on what you're seeing here. When in LR you choose a file or folder and select Show in Explorer, it opens an actual Windows Explorer window and shows the actual file structure and path. Are you saying that when in LR you choose to show a file or folder in Explorer, and then when you open up Explore outside of LR you see a totally different file structure?
I know this might be a silly question, but is it possible you have your LR files on a different drive or different file structure outside of your Windows default My Pictures folder? You can find out easy enough when you do the Show in Explorer by checking the exact path or just scrolling up the file window and examining your file structure.
If that simple thing doesn't help, I don't know what will myself!:)
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