Import speed is UNBELIEVABLY slow!

I have converted to LR5 as part of the creative cloud because Apple has chosen to abandon its professional level cataloging and editing software. No big deal, I was planning on moving to LR anyway because of its powerful tools, integration and workflow. So, I have been moving the projects I have from the Aperture library slowly but surely to my LR catalogue. I have also been importing all of my new shoots directly into LR. Last night when I tried to import 177 pictures, about 4GB, it just hung! All the previews popped up like normal and the slow down started when I clicked import. I waited about 1 hour and only 5 pictures were copied and added to the catalogue. I have never had to wait this long so I started trouble shooting. I canceled the import and thought maybe it is the card or the card reader. Closed LR and rebooted the MAC. Once I had restarted the computer I thought that maybe the card was going bad even though it is only 2 months old and about 4000 pictures shot on it. BTW I format the card after each copy and import. So I copied the card directly through the finder and the reader and card only took about 5 min to copy 4GB. I copied to both the SSD and an external HD backup which is part of my workflow. I then tried to copy and catalogue the card again. Also I tried directly from the Drives. NO DICE! By this time it was late. I was curious how long it would take, so started the import and went to bed. Much to my surprise 8 hours later only 70 pictures, about 1.5Gb of data transferred. Help! I really love this software. Finally none of my setting have changed. Still building minimal previews and no added presets or additional corrections upon import.
Thank you in advance.
AG

Jao vdL wrote:
Last, do you possibly have Lightroom set to generate 1:1 or smart previews? That might cause it to be working really hard for hours after a very large import.
Here's what the OP said, "It did finally copy all files but took 24 hours to do 4gb about 180 pics." Some simple math (24 hrs x 60) ÷ 180 pics = 8.0 Minutes per picture to import and build the 1:1 preview.
4GB ÷ 180 pics = 22.2MB file size should take no longer than 2.0 sec. to write to HDD and perhaps 10-20 seconds to build the 1:1 preview with a slow CPU.
(2.0+20 sec) x 180 pics = 66 minutes Total
Along with CPU spec on your system please provide memory amount (4GB, 8GB), OS you are running and if it is 32 bit or 64 bit.

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