New LR5 did not import LR4 pictures

I've read several other threads regarding this and none seem to answer a very basic question:
I have thousands upon thousands of pictures in LR4 that did not automatically go into LR5 just now (no import window opened up when I first started the program).
Is there some way I can just get it all done at once?

Okay, found it. There were so many .lrcat files to pick from, but apparently the rest were all backups. It's working now. Thank you for your help, but I had one more question:
Once this is done in a few minutes and I make sure it's all within LR5, is it reasonably safe to get rid of the .lrcat backups and the main one as well?

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