Importing photos from iPhoto to Lightroom library

I use OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.1 and Lightroom 5. I would like to know how to import the photos from my iPhoto (over 3,000, mix of jpeg and raw) to the library in Lightroom. I found an answer yesterday evening and followed the instructions carefully. They centred around making a duplicate Master and once the copying had been done, dragging that into Lightroom. I got to that bit and a little icon box came up saying to wait while it copied the over 3,000 files into the Master icon but nothing happened. I left my computer on all day hoping that the copying would take place or something would happen but alas, no. I can't figure out why it didn't copy. I followed the instructions to the letter. Any ideas anyone? Thank you v much.

Thanks for replying so quickly. My problem is that when I followed the instructions I originally had i.e. to first of all do a Ctrl click on the iPhoto library file and choose Show Package Content and then Ctrl click on the folder named Masters and then choose Duplicate. A little separate box then appeared telling me to wait until the 3,000 or so files had been copied into the duplicate Masters folder but it didn't copy any of the files. I was ready to drag the copy of the Masters folder to Desktop once the copying of my 3,000 or so files had been done but not one was copied. Sorry if I wasn't clear in explaining my query properly. I can't see why the copying didn't take place, especially as there was a little box saying it was going to happen. If it did happen, I was then ready to continue with my instructions which were as you suggested i.e. drag the folder named Masters copy from the iPhoto library Finder window to the Desktop, open Lightroom and drag the Masers copy folder into the Grid view of the library module, etc. Any ideas about why the photos weren't copied into the Duplicate file? Thanks.

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