Find photos not in the catalog

Lightroom has a way of search directories for the photos not already in the catalog? I use Lightroom 3.4 and updated my catalog of PSE9. Looking through the folders in the library module I see upcoming pictures like 'new' that PSE MUST have had in them, but obviously did not. I want to these folders to import anything not already in the research library.

Synchronize the folder (from the context menu of a folder) impeccable.

Beat

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