Importing images from an SD card to Lightroom 3.6

I am a newbie to Lightroom and am having trouble importing images from an SD card. Can somebody run through the import procedure step by step for me please??

Hank,
http://tv.adobe.com/show/getting-started-with-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-3/
Hal

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In this move Chris Orwig explains how to set up the import preferences in Lightroom and import select images from a compact flash card. Chris discusses how to evaluate photos before import and determine which photographs are the best, and explains the different methods that can be used for importing images. He also shows how to change file settings during import, from adding metadata to organizing and renaming files.. The movie also demonstrates the value of making a second copy of imported images and reviews the benefits of the DNG format .
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The many hundred files (raw and xmp per image) have been downloaded by ftp in no specific order. Means - a couple of files in the download queue - both raw and xmps. Most of the time, the small xmp files have been finished loading first and hence the "last change date" of these xmp files was OLDER than the "last change date" of the raw file - Lightroom then seem to ignore the existence of the xmp file and does not read it during import.(a minute is enough to run into the problem)
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This message means that you do not have WRITE permission to the destination directory (where the photos will be copied to). So, here is what you should do
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Aperture does not recognize that there are images to be imported on an SD card. My workaround is to copy the images from the SD card to a folder and then import the images from the folder. Aperture also imports incredibly slowly after the update to 3.4

Check your Import settings in the Import Panel, i.e. all that might exclude the image type you want to import:
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In the window that opens remove "com.apple.ImageCapture.plist"
and look into the subfolder "ByHost": if there are files named com.apple.ImageCapture something .plist remove them too.
then try again.
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~/Library/Preferences/aperture.plist
Regards
Léonie
P.S. in MacOS Lion and later the user library ~/Library is hidden by default.
You can reveal it also from the Finder's "Go" menu:
Finder > Go, then hold down the options ⌥ key, until the Library appears in the drop-down menu, select it and open the Library folder. Then go to the "Preferences".

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I am importing photos from an SD card but it keeps adding them in triplicate...any idea why?

I am importing photos from an SD card but the photos are added in triplicate and will not organize in order....any ideas as to why?

Because there are three copies of each photo on the card and you have the sort order set incorrectly?
That is the overwhelmingly most likely cause - beyond that you actually need to share some information with us since we only know what you tell us and at this point all you have told us is that you have a problem and you are running OS X 10.9.4
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I'm trying to import photos from my SD card into iPhoto, which I have done many times before, but now I'm not seeing the "Import All" button to start the import.

I have an iMac, with an SD card slot, equipped with iPhoto '11(v9.2.3), and until recently have imported photos from my SD card without problem. But now, after turning on iPhoto, and inserting my SD card, nothing happens, except that a "canon_dc" icon appears on my desktop. The "Import All" button no longer displays above my previously imported photos and I am, therefore, unable to complete the photo import. Has something changed?

By design, the organizer (and any other database management systems) is there to prevent you from duplicating your media files. The catalog management allows you to have the same image in different categories or albums. Duplication in different folders is to be absolutely avoided.
The same image file can have multiple tags like 'family', 'vacations', 'birthdays' and be present in three different albums with the same names. On obvious advantage is less disk space. Another one with your present folder system is that if you edit one of your duplicates, the other ones are unchanged.
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