Lightroom Won't Import RAW+Jpeg

I took photos using Nikon D200 using the setting RAW+Jpeg. When I insert my memory card into the reader and tell it to import all photos, it only sees and imports the RAW. Looking the the CF card directly, I can see both jpeg and raw, but LR will only bring in the Raw..any reason for this? I unchecked check for duplicates to see if that mattered and it doesn't.

Shane-
 
 This is intentional behavior, lots don't like it, lots do. For me, personally, I never pull down JPEG copies with my RAW files from the camera, but this is not for everyone.
 There are workarounds, (search threads) but the simplest to to ditch the JPEGs and create them as needed from the adjusted RAW files.
 
 
John "McPhotoman"
 color="#800000" size="2">~~ John McWilliams
 
 
 
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 Canon DSLRs

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