Lightroom ignores some RAW files on import

I know that variations of this have been discussed in a number of threads, but here is one more scenario:
In a folder I have several RAW files. In the same folder I also have some PSD versions of the same photos (these have been converted from the corresponding RAW files with ACR, enhanced further in Photoshop and then saved back as PSD files, all this before I started using Lightroom). The RAW and PSD versions have the same name except for the extension (in this case .CR2 and .PSD).
When importing from a folder with such a mix of RAW and PSD files, Lightroom always ignores the RAW version of a RAW/PSD pair (the PSD version is imported, the RAW version is not, I can see this is happing already in the Import Preview)! This seems to happen regardless if the state of the "Ignore Suspected Duplicates" flag.
After a (partial) import like this, if I try to import only the missing RAW file(s), Lightroom tells me that "The following photos will not be imported because they are already present in the library...". The list of files shows that Lightroom is actually trying to reimport the Photoshop (PSD) files even if I this time actually selected only the missing RAW (CR2) files!
I guess this must be an error of some sorts?
Jørgen Johanson

This is a well-known and discussed problem: if you have RAW plus PSD only the PSD will be imported. A workaround is to move the files that didn't import into a separate folder and import from there.

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