Lightroom 5 (Mac) stops importing.

Lightroom stops importing, the progress bar stops moving. After quiting Lightroom and trying to sync the folder it happens again. There are no strange fileformats in the folder, just straight JPG and XMP. This is pretty annoying - such a basic functionality should work out of the box.
I've read that the german character "ß" could be the cause (so every file tagged with German Street Names in it will stop LR from working! Excellent.) – and the release candidate 5.2 should fix the issue. BUT: I am not very fond of installing a release candidate; what happens later, when the final version is released? Does the automatic update function its job? Or do i have to fiddle once more to get the final version working?
Looking forward to helpful suggestions, Sincerely
Niko

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J'utilise Lightroom sur Mac. Aujourd'hui, impossible d'importer des images depuis une carte mémoire sur un disque dur externe.
created by markalanthomas in Photoshop Lightroom - View the full discussion
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