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You can ingest the images into the Lightroom storage dataholding file, which then means it is only accessable via Lightroom, in much the same way as iPhoto or Aperture, which is a deal killer to me. I find that a nightmare because you can't duplicate or move the images to other locations without exporting them.
I spent two days moving about 20,000 images out of an iPhoto library recently when my friend updated his iMac, that was very hard work. If they had been in normal folders and accessible it would have been done in an hour.
I tried moving the entire date file but after 4 hours it crashed and caused more problems. So I ended up exporting them, then re-importing them on the new compouter.
Or, much better method, you can leave the images in normal folders in your preferred layout and structure, it their normal format, ie. NEF, TIFF, JPEG or what ever you prefer. Lightroom only stores a display image to speed up rendering while you review your images.
That is my method. When I edit an image I create a folder within the same folder as the originals, called edits. Most of my image folders contain these 'edits' folders and I know that is where I can find the pick 'pick of the bunch' images edited, ready for use..
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Robert.