Too many photos hanging around??

I have had LR for about 3 months. I have bought 90 dollars of books. I get so confused. I have 12,000 pictures on a external hard drive. I can import them to Elements and LR and do what i want with them.... My problem is this. I down load the pictures with LR on to my ext. hrd. dr. I put them into a sub-folder called "ALL NEW PHOTOS. I keep a similar sub-folder in Light room so i can import them in and then work with them. When i finish with the photos an organize them to their own folders my folder on LR called ALL NEW PHOTOS is of course empty. When i go back to my external hard drive i find the photos still in that sub folder called ALL NEW PHOTOS. Does this mean i have to edit both LR annd my external hard drive? I tried to sync both drives but i still have a full folder on the external hard drive. Am i suposed to put LR on my external hard drive??? Thank you for your kind attention. If it is hard to explain just point me to a paragraph somewhere.

Mr. Gene McCullaugh,
Your request of Terminology , I think, I should answer. I work as follows....
under CATALOG I have:
ALL PHOTOGRAPHS: 10470 PICTURES
QUICK COLLECTION         2
PREVIOUS IMPORT         70
PHOTOS MISSING FROM FOLDER "G"         71
FOLDERS is the next classificiation.
under this I have MY LIGHT ROOM PHOTOS: drive
in folder G: I have all my sub folders from A to Z
Now, on my separate hard drive I have put all my photos from A to Z in a main folder called "MY LIGHT ROOM PHOTOS."
Now, Gene I tried to use LR to down load my pictures to my G drive. This works. I have a file in G that I call ALL NEW PHOTOS . I put all my new photos in it till I have a chance to work them. When I decide to work on the new photos I go to LR and import the new photos from G drive. I then work on them and then put them in sub folders in LR depending on the subject of the photo. Now what I don’t like is this. I can run the Sub Folder in LR called ALL New PHotos down to ZERO. But when I go back to G drive the All New Photos sub Folder is still full. So I have decide to do this. I will use LR to put the new photos on G drive. I will then organize them in sub folders with a different program. I will write down all the folders where I put NEW photos in. I will then SYNC those folders with G drive and LR. Then I think I will have less mess..?? What You Think Gene?
Thanks For Your kind Attention
oldcoot123

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