Cannot import photos to iPhoto

Hi, everyone!
I am experiencing iPhoto unexpectedly quitting for a long time. Each time I plug in my iPhone 5s and it will read my photos. It can read all my photos from the process bar. However, it will go to furher processing before I can do any uploading work. After waiting for a long time (about 10 min), it will suddenly quits. And the problem has lated for half month. I tried other iPhone with my pro, it doesn't show the same problem and I also tried to connect my 5s with other mac it also works fine. Only connecting my 5s with my mac pro, the problem appears.
I have successfully uploaded photos from 5s to this pro, from half month before, it suddenly fails every time. Feels really sad:(
My iphone has a lot of photos (about 30,000). Does it will affect the processing? I see someone saying to clear the caches. But I did not see any caches I can clear. I also tried to restart my iPhone and my mac pro. Nothing helpsTT Is there anyone experiencing the same problem?
Do u have the solutions?
Really appreciated if you can help! Because I found rather troublesome to use the image capture. Because it cannot separate the photos by date automatically>< I want to import my photos to MBP and to release some storage in my iphone!
Here is the crash report.
Process:         iPhoto [514]
Path:            /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier:      com.apple.iPhoto
Version:         9.4.2 (9.4.2)
Build Info:      iPhotoProject-710042000000000~2
App Item ID:     408981381
App External ID: 11723545
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [136]
User ID:         501
Date/Time:       2014-04-09 00:53:58.162 +0800
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.3 (12D78)
Report Version: 10
Interval Since Last Report:          39818 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           18
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 24793 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   18
Anonymous UUID:                      7FD5D8F5-9EBA-3197-0770-E8055582ECBD
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000

Try these 3 updaters:
iPhoto 9.4.3
OS X Mountain Lion Update v10.8.5 (Combo)
OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 Supplemental Update
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