LR3 Library Folder Access

Hello,
I have a couple thousand folders in my catalog and am unable to access folders in the folders panel after a certain point and would like to know why this is happening. The only way I can access those folders is to click All Photographs, find the image and right click to show in library. Notice the attached screenshot shows folder 38846 highlighted and accessible. The second screenshot shows folder 38848 and beyond as being unable to access. The remaining folders will not respond to any mouse clicks. I have no filters on, all stacks expanded, no images or collections are selected. Any ideas?

I don't see why not... If you want you can do it for even more.. just make sure you don't have
multiple thousands of folders in one folder! So you could do either two layers 0->0->0-9999 or use double digits 00->0-9999
I just wouldn't try and put 10,000 folders in one, since you know it fails after about 3000.
Cheers!

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