Adding/Editing "Old" Images

A number of DNG images already existed on my HDD prior to installation of LR3. Now I would like to bring them into LR. Only practical way that I have found is, in Library view, to "Move" them from one folder to another folder. Just completed that maneuver for a number of them. I had added five other images, using the "Copy" mode. If I open the catalog called "All Photographs", the five show up as grayed out (already imported).So the following questions suggest themselves:
Is there a way to import existing images, which does not involve creation of a new folder?
What could have happened to the catalog created when those were imported?
Is there a way to re-import an image without duplication?
tks,
jwc

You wrote:
Is there a way to import existing images, which does not involve creation of a new folder?"
No, unless you give them different file names. As a general rule, not only for LR, you cannot have 2 files with the same name in one and the same folder.
If for instance you rename an image file in LR and give it the same name as an already existing one, LR will add the suffix "-1" to the second file.
"Is there a way to re-import an image without duplication?"
Why would you want to do that? If it was possible you would replace one image-file with another that has the same name.
If images are already in the catalog and for some reason you want them twice in LR, you have to do what you did: put them in adifferent folder.
WW

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