Auto import question

If I understand it right , when shooting tethered or wireless, I download to a specific folder which I then make the "watched folder " in LR then use Auto import to import to Lightroom, but auto import insists on moving the files to another folder? I take it moves the original and doesn't move a copy- so why isn't there an option just to leave the file where it is( where I specified and want it in the first place) This seems to add an unecessary (for me anyway) step into my work flow.
Thanks for any assistance guys.
I will be using Win XP Pro+ Nikon Capture Control Pro
Colin

Thanks for your reply, Don. At the risk of appearing rude, of course I read the bl**dy help file, that's why I understand the process as outlined in my question. I understand that the way LR works is that images have to be "dropped into" a watched folder so LR recognises them as new images and imports them. I don't understand why the watched folder needs to be empty to work- I know it DOES but what I don't understand is WHY it does - why lightroom IS set up the way it is, and needs to copy them to another folder and then I have to copy them back to where I want them to be,rather than my choosing where I want them to be in the first place and LR dealing with them there.I am not a programmer but I would have thought that within the watched folder LR could recognise files which it has ALREADY imported, and new ones dropped in by wireless or tether, or drag and drop, which it SHOULD import. Perhaps that way is not possible, or is way more difficult to code. Perhaps my question should have been posted as a feature request, rather than a question re Auto Import. I think I understand Auto Import the way it is set up, just not why it is set up that way.

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