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And never ever use DPP or other software to move the images after they are in Lr, or else Lr will lose track of them and the edits that you have applied. To minimise the difficulty of telling Lr where they live should you ever need to access a backup drive or whatever, it is best if all images on each drive live under a common parent folder. You can have subfolders under that one but don't use multiple top-level folders. Organise this before you import/Add the images into Lr and one day you'll be very glad that you did.
Unfortunately, DPP edit commands are stored in a section of the raw files that Lr will not read. You will have to start over from scratch in Lr.
Overall Lr is far more capable than DPP but the transition and transfer from DPP to Lr is not trivial if you have already invested a lot of edit time in DPP. Plus, you will need to retain DPP to see which focus sensors were used because Lr cannot find that info in the files.
The good news is that nothing stops you using both DPP and Lr for as long as necessary. Make a habit of editing all new images in Lr and gradually editing the older images in Lr too - and thereafter never edit those images in DPP. I advise that start with your better or more significant images so that you maximise the benefit that you get in as short a time as possible. It won't matter so much if you take longer to get around to editing the not-so-useful images in Lr.
- Alan
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