Transfer Photoshop Elements 4 in XP into Lightroom on a Mac?

Is it possible to transfer a few thousand photos from Photoshop Elements ver.4 on a PC with XP, into Lightroom on a Mac, without losing the filenames, captions and notes?
If do-able, would it be better to upgrade to Elements ver.6 before transferring into Lightroom?
Has anyone run into problems doing this?
Thank you.

There is no real path at this time to upgrade a PSE 4 catalog to a Lightroom catalog. Existing versions of Lightroom allow upgrades of PSE 6 through PSE 11 catalogs.
The best you can do is have PSE 4 write the metadata to the photo files, and then import the photos into Lightroom. You will lose certain items in the PSE 4 catalog such as version sets, stacks, collections, notes and possibly a few other things. Your tags should be transferred (although even with tags there are some bugs)
Another option is to convert the PSE 4 catalog to a PSE 12 catalog (using the 30-day free trial of PSE 12) and then wait until LR supports conversion of PSE 12 catalogs, in which case you would not lose the aforementioned items (except notes still will not transfer)

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