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Yes, LR is a deceivingly complicated program. Looks simple, but there's a lot of little gotchas in there. Take your time on every dialog box and be sure all the options are as you want. I know at first you may not know what you want, or what is best, but you'll get there.
As a common practice do all your file and folder moving in LR and it will move things on the OS also. If you move something on the OS then LR doesn't know it. Just as food for thought-some advocate not to even use ANY kind of a folder structure once one starts using LR. Their logic is that images that are properly keyworded and with proper metadata imbeded do not need to live in a structure of any type. They are in the catalog and can easily be found with a simple search. While I understand their point, and it's correct, I still can't tear myself away from a folder structure. But, YMMV.
Separate catalogs for strictly different things, like family vs business, do work out fine for some people. It just depends on how you need it done. But the fewer the better.
You can get more excellent advice and help at www.lightroomforums.net . It's THE source for help, IMO.
The more I use LR the more I find out about it. There are a lot of great features"under the hood". IMO if you're into graphic arts, etc., you have to have full photoshop. If you're a photographer whose main goal is to Optimize the images, LR is one of the best tools out there.
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