Just stops importing.

Well I've filed quite a few complaints and notes on iPhoto 5 and it's endless cue of stupid problems and it continues to go on doing strange things.
After my library hit about 12,000 photos... it just stopped importing altogether.
Be it from a camera, a file, a drive.. whatever.
With only 29 pics on my memory card, I tried importing them through iPhoto and after the last pic is viewed. It crashed. So I opened a new library with no photos whatsoever, and tried to import. It worked fine.
I then transfered the pics to a folder on my desktop, then tried to import them into my original library .. and it crashes every single time.. even if I try just one picture.
I've phoned customer support, I've spoken with just about everybody there is at Apple that you can reach. There have been no attempts to correct this truly buggy chunk of software. I know Apple staff cruize these pages so, I beg you... as a pro that needs your software to work because I've been married to its use for so long now... please take a look at this program... the posts on this page.. and come up with some fixes.

Magoo:
Can you give us some information regarding your setup: model, RAM, HD size and free space, system version, iPhoto version? It may be a free space issue but will wait for your response to get into possible solutions.
For future posts you might consider filling out your profile as I have. That helps the responders get needed information right away.
OT

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