Lightroom isue

Now that the moderator has moved the posting, I can continue.

It sounds like you used to use the old Lightroom Perpetual, as in v 6.14 from many years ago. It sounds like you have decided to subscribe to an Adobe Plan as to start using the newest Lightroom. I say this as you refer to your old Library (as in old catalog) And as you use the term Import.

If so, what Adobe Plan did you subscribe to?

Hopefully not the Lightroom Plan (but that can be changed).

Hopefully the Photography Plan (or similar)

You can blame this (I do, most of us do) on Adobe Marketing. Way back near the beginning of the subscription model, I forget at what date, They decided it would be just grand to cater to the Me To Crowd who uses their iPhones for selfies, etc, to make them a product tailored to multimedia users. They decided to separate the Mobile feature back in v6 from the then current Lr CC and create a separate product. One that used the Cloud. And in their "lets compete with Coca Cola marketing" (as in bone headed decision) they called the new product Lightroom (and eventually renamed the old subscription Lr CC as Lightroom Classic) (some of my words and history may be a bit of, hard to remember). This caused a lot of confusion, a lot of angry customers, we had a suspcion that they were abandoning the classic Lr (advertisments that featured the new Lr, and failed to mention the old Classic, untill we complained, did not help)

At any rate, current products

Lightroom, or Lightroom Ecosystem (Cloud Based) commonly given the letters: Lr (as you can see in your screenshot top left) . Currently v7.12. Also known to unhappy members as Lr Cloudy (that is the nice version). This flavor of Lightroom, typically uses an Album stored on the cloud (not a catalog, and not normally referred to as a Library), and used to force the photos on the cloud (recently changed, they can now be local). This flavor of Lr is sometimes referred to by Adobe as Lightroom Desktop (makes no sense to me)

Lightroom Classic. given the letters LrC. This is the natural progression of the original Lightroom, going back to v1, that ended at v6.14 (that is about when the subscription began, a bit earlier than 6.14, but close). Uses a Catalog that is on a hard drive (sometimes referred to the Library, as the Catalog location when noted in LrC System Info list the library path for that) And Photos local, preferably on a hard drive.

As for the Adobe Plans.

• Their is a Lightroom Plan, that plan included only Lightroom, as in Lightroom Ecosystem (Cloud Based)
• Their is no Plan that includes only Lightroom Classic
• The Plan that included Lightroom Classic that most members probably subscribe to is the Photography Plan. It included Photoshop, Bridge, Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Adobe Camera RAW (actually comes along with the ride to support PS and Bridge), and some miscellaneous. It comes in two flavors, for size of Cloud Storage.
• Other, bigger, more expensive plans exist, others may know more about those.

If you are unhappy with the Plan you subscribed to, you can go back into your account at Adobe.com, and request a change (I do not know the costs or specifics)

If you did go for the Photography Plan, you may have simply not installed LrC just yet. Revisit the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App (aka. Creative Cloud) to fix that.

Moderator

As can bee seen in the attachment that the OP included:

The OP has mistaken Lightroom Ecosystem for Lightroom Classic.

Can you kindly move this posting to the correct community?

Common misunderstanding. You don't import into a new catalog! Then you lose all your previous edits and organization.

You simply open the old catalog. Just find it and double-click it. Then your old catalog is upgraded to the new version, keeping all your work, and you get a new catalog with a new version suffix.