Ok I can understand that, but I just want to know how LR users achieve the same task. So, say you just launched LR, ready to work. You have 500 projects scattered over a very complex nested folder structure on the left.
So at this point, what does a LR user click and what goes through their brains? Because right now, what I do is
open every parent folder
click on every single photo folder
scan the photos in the middle area
and move to the next
repeat x500
I can't even search. For example, if I wanted to search for a word in the 500 folders, say, "xmas", you can't even do that. Or did I missed it?