IPhoto import to Lr5

After adding the iPhoto library, there are three folders: Master, Previews and Thumbnails. My assumption is that Previews and Thumbnails are for use by iPhoto and could be deleted from the catalog. However, Lr seems to choke up when deleteing the Thumbnails folder, which has more than 18,000 files. Should I just leave them be?

The first step is to find out where are your images stored. Go to Applications/iPhoto and right-click on “show package
You should now be able to see the iPhoto “library.”
The next step is to decide if you want to keep the images where they are or move them to a new location. Using Adobe Lightroom you can accomplish both tasks. You can MOVE the images to a fast and reliable external hard drive or onto your computer hard drive in an “images” folder (or whatever you have called you parent folder for all your images).
In Adobe Lightroom’s Import dialog, navigate to the folder that contains you iPhoto Library, make sure MOVE is selected, and select the new destintion on the drive you want to move them to (the External or your Hard drive)
The pictures will be MOVED from the iPhoto location, and imported through Lightroom.

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Fix #1
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
2 - run Option #4 to rebuild the database.
Fix #2
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4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
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I've tried:
Hard restart iPhone
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Updated OSX (10.10)
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Hi, Anyone else had this problem?
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[0x0-0x15015].com.apple.iPhoto[264]
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Open iMovie and click the photo browser icon, if you still get the message, rather than Albums and Events, Quit iMovie.
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Hello,
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Thanks in advance.
For information:
iPhone 4S 5.1.1
MBA 2012
iPhoto 9.3.2
OS X Mountain Lion
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First, thanks to help me.
For your question, here a screenshot of Image Capture:
Always the same problem...
This means that there a problem with my iPhone ?

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Kind regards,
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