That’s still a mystery then, but I’m happy you have a workaround, at least.
Ok, I'm late but I tried out to start the path seperately, but it didn't work on my machine too. I also tried to look for mistakes inside the path, its depth, but it didn't change anything. But anyway. It's not such a big thing for me. I will do it like yukonfawr and put my samples into the superdirt folder.
Sorry @cycle0 and @cycle1, at some point I uploaded a samples-extra.zip with missing samples. It should contain the following. If you have some missing please re-download from https://slab.org/tmp/samples-extra.zip
break - breakbeats
bsguitar - bloodsport sample pack - https://pickleddiscs.bandcamp.com/album/blood-sport-sample-pack
bskick - see above
bsperc - ditto
bssnare - more from bloodsport
bsbass - you get the idea
bshihat
bsnoise
bsvocals
clap - a range of clap samples
cpu - cpu records electro sample pack 1 - https://shop.cpurecords.net/album/electro-samples-vol-1
cpu2 - volume 2 - https://cpurecords.net/electro-samples-vol-2/
dbass - some bass sounds made by damu - https://soundcloud.com/damu
foley - a large number of 'foley' samples
kick - kick sounds
rash - some octaves from my jv1080 synth
claus - claustrofophobia impulse responses from here https://fokkie.home.xs4all.nl/IR.htm
dsynth - more samples from damu
hi - 'hi' handdrum samples
lo - 'lo' handdrum samples
snare - snare drums
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Just found this here – I am sorry, I didn't have the time to follow the conversations. But anyway, maybe it is helpful even if too late.
For SuperDirt, you keep for each sample instrument one folder. By default, the folder name will be the name of your instrument (that is, what you write after sound or s in tidal).
When I put a folder of spectra, called Spectra in the path: "/Users/telephon/Samples/", then I can load it like this:
~dirt.loadSoundFiles("/Users/wanninger/Samples/Spectra");
Also, I can load any folder in "/Samples":
~dirt.loadSoundFiles("/Users/wanninger/Samples/*");
But if I go one folder too deep, this won't work:
~dirt.loadSoundFiles("/Users/wanninger/Samples/Spectra/*");
The reason is that there are no sample folders in this path, only single files.
I should add a better error message, sorry for the confusion! Although what it posts is true: "WARNING: no folders found in paths: '/Users/wanninger/Samples/Spectra/*'".
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I've been spending quite a bit of time on this step, because for some reason, I always ended up with "WARNING: no folders found in paths:" even though I've tried different locations. But when instead of typing the path, I dragged the folder into SuperCollider (so it pasted the path automatically), that path worked. (Seemingly the paths I've tried were identical!) I have some accented characters in my paths usually, so I guess that didn't play that well with SC.
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Samples samples samples. I'm piling them up, this is a good collection 
What officially happens if/when one imports a (sub)directory which is already registered in SuperDirt. E.g. when one dirt.loadSoundFiles a directory called oh which SuperDirt already has. Will the new ones mask the old samples, or be added to them?
I tried to find a method of ~dirt which would list all the samples it knows of, but failed.