Importing in Lightroom 3 is painstakingly slow

I am using iMac 3.06 Ghz Inel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB Ram. Suddenly importing Raw files in Lightroom 3 seems incredibly slow. Have preset import to embedded and sidecar. I did not seem to have this issue previously but for some reason now I do. I have my photos stored on NAS Thecus N5500.
Any advise would be much appreciated.
regards,
LS

Quote "Have preset import to embedded and sidecar".
What exactly do you mean by this. Are you converting to dng and embedding the raw file? Are you creating high resolution sidecars? All this to the network drive? What is the connection wireless? USB 2.0 or other?
What were you doing previously that it was so much faster?

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