Import into LR on a Mac

I am a Canon shooter and a seasoned Lightroom user. About a month ago my Mac stopped allowing me to import images from my CF card into Lightroom. I have worked with Mac and Adobe to no avail. At this point I know that my Mac can see the card and will me allow me to download images into iPhoto. It will generate thumbnails in Lightroom, but will tell me that it's unable to read the images when I try a complete import. If I switch users on my Mac to a dummy user, I am able to import the same images off my CF card. Mac can't help me any further becuase they feel this a LR user setting/preference issue. To my knowledge, I didn't changed any settings, at least not intentionally. Has anyone encountered a similar problem or have suggetsions for how to fix this issue? I have been workign with Adobe technicians to no avail and I am getting very behind on my work!

"Unable to read" errors usually means Lightroom does not have Write permission to the destination folder.
So check your permissions, and make the necessary changes.

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