HI Phil, There are NO stupid questions! When you launch Lightroom, it opens your catalog. When you Import, it is important to check every option in the Import Dialog Box. I generally recommend starting on the left hand side to select where to import from. Then I go to the top of the dialog box and decide if I want to move, copy, copy as DNG, or add the photos. Basically, I either ADD because I manually drag copied the photos to the location where I want to store my photo files, OR else copy or copy as DNG, which makes a copy to a new location - the location I choose in the next step. The next step is at the top right of the Import Dialog box - the location where you want to keep your photo files. And finally you go down the right hand side of the dialog box to refine the add, move or copy, by setting some presets, or putting the new photo files into a subfolder in the new location. Think of the Import Dialog box as a Clock face, and go all the way around it before you click the final Import box!
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