Importing copies of photos

I am using Lightroom 3 on a Mac OS. I wanted to download "Focus Magic", but apparently that is an impossibility. I installed it on my PC, on which also have LR3, made the adjustments I wanted in "focus Magic", then copied them to a disc. When I go to copy them into LR on my Mac, it won't allow it, as the photos "already exist" on the system. I have also tried this on different occasions for different reasons with the same result. Is there a work around for this?

Hi Sue,
Can you re-import the TIFFs on your PC into LR3-catalog? Or how do you get them back from Focus Magic?
Then you could use File-Export as catalogs - negatives included, and move this piece over to your Mac, where you invoke the command within Mac's LR "Import from another catalog".
What you briefly describe above sounds to me that you do not grab the results of Focus Magic when you "copy the photos directly from Lightroom to a DVD", but the versions which you had exported to Focus Magic. Thus they would look identical to Mac's LR.
[Maybe it is the wrong question to ask in this context, but why do you use both PC and Mac? Have you labeled one of the catalogs as the *clear master* and the other as a *working intermediate catalog*? ... I consider this a challenge to have 2 catalogs - to be sure what you do on which... prone to confusion it it were me ]
Cornelia

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