I am using lightroom 4 upgraded from three, two , one etc. etc. but, I notice that the lightroom catalog 3.2.2 is still running and seems to slow things down a bit what did I do wrong ?
You did nothing wrong. When LR converted your LR 3 catalogue, it just tacked a .2 on the end of the filename. LR 4 won't work at all with unconverted LR 3 catalogues, so you're OK. The slowness must have some other cause. You might want to try the 4.2RC version to see if that speeds things up for you.
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