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I have been a LR user since LR1 first came out and consider myself relatively knowledgeable about the program and how it works. However, I recently acquired LR 4 and have run into the problem a number of you seem to have found with moving from LR3 to starting off a new catalog in LR4. I've searced the databases and read a number of the discussions but have yet to find the solution to my particular problem. So, anyone who has the time and knowledge, I'd appreciate some assistence. I use a an iMac 24, with Snow Leopard (soon to upgrade). When I first loaded LR 4  I got the usual LR beta catalog (5 total images). I started from there opening the catalog dialog in the Library menu and selecting the one I thought should be uploaded. I did the same to the others shown. None  of these contained my old LR 3 catalog. Many of the thumbnails were missing as were a lot of files with the evil question mark (and not so evil exclamation points). I've loaded LR4.1, backed up and optimzed the catalog, shut the computer down and started up again with some improvement (fewer question marks and blank thumbnails) but not enough images. I still have LR3 installed but the catalog there has also changed. I had around 18,000 images that were on the original LR3 catalog. I now have 14,000 or so on that catalog and 10,000 or so on the LR 4 catalog. The ones missing on the LR 4 catalog seem to be the most recent and am not sure about the LR 3 catalog though the most recent seem to be there. I presume I have not converted the appropriate catalog though I don't know which one it would be and have no idea how the LR 3 catalog changed. I realize I could start over, reconnect the originals and dump the LR 3 catalog but my negatives and xmps are scattered over lots of folders, many of which are not in order. I took my own advice and ignored folders for many years and now they're an unholy mess. I will continue to plug along and I presume eventually find a way to solve things but I would greatly appreciate suggestions that might lead to more rapid solutions. Thanks in advance.

I suggest you first locate all you catalogs spread all over your computer. Then study each one and see what exactly is there and whether you need the images from there or not. Keep your real ones and trash the rest.
Reconnect all missing files in all the catalogs you have left.
Choose the biggest, most important and possibly recent one and make it your main catalog. If needed, upgrade it to LR4.
Import the rest of catalogs into the main one.
Now that you have only one catalog with all images reconnected, all is left to do is tidy it up.

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