Unable to import photos into Lightroom 5 from anywhere.

I am running the CC version of LIghtroom 5 on a macbook with OSX 10.7.5.  I upgraded to lightroom 5 and have not been able to import any photos into Lightroom.  Every folder that I click on in the import dialogue looks empty.  I have tried from the WD external hard drive that I store my photos on and directly from the desktop.  It doesn't recognize photos anywhere.  I've unchecked the "hide suspected duplicates" box and that doesn't make a difference.  It's like LIghtroom thinks they don't exist.  Help?! 

Hi,
can you please post screenshot of the import dialog when it fails? Do you crate a subfolder in target folder? You use file rename,apply preset, set metadata during import. Try to deactive these. (May be some corrupt / missing data).

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