Old folders deleted from hard drive are grayed out but won't delete

Some kind of error occurred in lightroom 5 that caused a folder of photos I had previously imported to be grayed out and have a question mark. To the right where the number of photos shows, it says inval... (invalid?). The usual process for matching up missing photos didn't work and I got error messages. Finally I removed the folder of photos from the hard drive and copied it to another drive and renamed it. Then I copied it back to the hard drive where I usually store folders. This time the import worked as usual.
However I have a couple of grayed out folders with a question mark and "inval..." that are non-functional and nothing happens when I choose "remove".
How can I get rid of them?

However I have a couple of grayed out folders with a question mark and "inval..." that are non-functional and nothing happens when I choose "remove".
Try rebooting your computer. In previous instances, that sometimes caused these phantom folders to disappear from Lightroom's folder pane.

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2 work
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I had just moved one folder from one sub folder to another using LR
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D
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