General Error for Importing files in Premiere Pro CS6

I have used the adobe Premiere Pro since it's inception, and haven't had this problem with it's persistency before. I've scoured the net looking for an answer and haven't been able to find one.
So, the issue is that common one: "importer reported a generic error".
This is a MacBook Pro computer.
I uninstalled and reinstalled the software, the computer has been cleaned and there shouldn't be any remnants of previous versions, etc. I have also downloaded the functional content from Adobe.
Downloading the functional content, this time, only fixed some of the importing errors. First, it was most of the files, if not all of my media files, from DVDs that could not be imported. (These are My DVDs with My original footage.) Now, after downloading the content files, I have about half of the files as imported no problem, and the other half remain the same.
Is there any answer out there for this particular fix? Thanks for the help!

4 hours sounds about right for this source material on such a system. Better hardware may be needed to reduce the exporting time or you have to convert the source material to a less demanding format.

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