Photos app hanging on importing photos

When trying to import photos, the standard open file dialog hangs on opening.
I have successfully imported just earlier today. I have just over 3000 pictures in Photos now.
Is this a known issue?

Hello,
I do have the same issue. Just after the release of Photo's in 10.10.3 I had problems opening the pictures directory from Mail after clicking the attach button: the open dialog hung. However opening Photo's at the same time enabled the dialog and the files could be attached. I assumed the pictures directory was locked by Photo's during the library conversion or something similar.
The library is now completely converted (I think, at least Photo's does not increase the CPU anymore)
However now it is not possible to use the import dialog from within Photo's itself, it hangs in a complete similar way as before (the process com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService.xpc has a high CPU load [ >110% on my 4 core system] and memory allocation is increasing slowly to above 1 Gbyte).
It tries to open the Pictures directory (with >20.000 files in it), but I cannot change this default directory, because the dialog hangs. I can force quit the dialog process: the dialog disappears and Photo's in usable again, although I can only see my existing pictures converted from iPhoto, I am not able to add new ones :-(
Gerard

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>
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AppleMenu/About This Mac/More Info/Software/Applications/MassStorageCamera shows version 6.1 4/26/12 Universal 64 bit.
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I have an iMac Core Duo 32 bit OSX 10.6.8 all updates current. 2GB RAM. LR3.6 used to run fine on this machine. I didn't use LR3 for some time then on coming back to it I notice that it would hang on importing images from a memory card. Computer and card etc all running well otherwise. LR3 would import several of the images then stop. Indefinite beachball on trying to close LR3 so had to Force Quit. On restarting LR3, it stops at the splash screen and needs Force Quit to get out of it.
However, if I Force Quit the MassStorageCamera app using the Activity Monitor, LR3 runs fine again! No problem, unless I try to re-import. There is no problem importing from the hard disk if I first copy the same images from the SD card. AS LONG AS MASSSTORAGECAMERA is not running! If Mass StorageCamera is running, LR3 will hang even if importing from the hard disk. There are 2 small AVI files on the SD card which were copied to the hard disk so that's not a factor.
So, I surmise that MassStorageCamera was updated during the time I was not using LR3 and now there is some incompatibilty between it, LR3 and my Core Duo system. I'm guessing there's an updates MassStorageCamera app, probably for Lion, that has broken LR3 on my system.
AppleMenu/About This Mac/More Info/Software/Applications/MassStorageCamera shows version 6.1 4/26/12 Universal 64 bit.
Any thoughts?

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keppie

Hey i think i figured it out.
Had the same prob. 10.6 12.2.1 entourage hanging.
Renamed FCT, instantly prompted that a font was corrupt. Removed the corrupt Font: KufiStandardGK.ttf << this just happened to be my one corrupt font.
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I also deleted every office pref/plist setting i thought relevant to startup which triggered the microsoft setup assistant (watched via the console app) and it ran through its check and then immediately the fontcachetool started and went awol on cpu time. Once i killed it--during the starting up of word and entourage... timing may be unrelated but i did them at nearly the same time.
Ps. Your post was extremely well written and I apologize for my stream of consciousness, less than stelllar response... hope this helps if not feel free to ping me for more details on what I did...
Good Luck.. All my office apps are running normally now.

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