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I have seen two methods to convert from iPhoto 11 to LR 5.6. One is the 5 step method that culminates in dragging the masters copy to the grid view of LR. The other is using the utility recently released by Adobe.
I have about 12K photos organized in iPhoto. There are RAW, JPEG, TIFF, and PSD formats. All edits have been done in Photoshop-none were done in iPhoto. No smart albums used. I'm using Mac OS 10.7.5.
Given the above info, should I favor one of these methods over the other?

It really depends on what you want to achieve:
Import masters – without any edits
Preserve all the editing done in Photoshop
Dragging the masters or using the Adobe migration tool will ignore all of your editing which is fine if you intend to start over in Lightroom. The migration tool should bring in metadata e.g. keywords.
Assuming you would wish to preserve all of your Photoshop work, I would recommend exporting copies from iPhoto to the desktop, or specific folders, either as jpeg or tiff and then importing those into LR.

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