Lightroom 5.3 Import Freezes

Okay so I have been importing images most all day and now all of a suddent Lightroom freezes at 23% when importing and never finished nor does it give any error message. I am using convert to digital negitive and import.
I have not a clue on where to start troubleshooting this so any help would be appreactied
Wayne
UPDATE -
I decided to create a new catalog (just to see if that was the issue) and that didnt correct the problem. It froze at 23% again.
Also when I close the program, the GUI goes away but if I launch task manager, its there running and I cant end that process. I have to restart (force) as a normal shutdown doesnt work. So to me, its pointing to the 5.3 update I did today.

This issue may have nothing to do with the camera per se.
Try expanding the destination sub panel on the R-hand side of the import dialog and see what happens.
Let us know if there is still an issue.
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