Lightroom CC freezing on Import

I just installed LR CC (6) and when I go to import photos it starts the import and then freezes up and never finishes. I have tried doing this from an external drive, from my iphone 6 plus and have also copied the files I want to import to the local drive and tried importing that way and I get the same issue under all scenarios. I have also tried shutting off the Use Graphics Processor under the Performance preference to see if this was the issue but still seems to hang. I also tried creating a new library to see if my catalog was maybe corrupt.
Is anyone else having similar issues? Please help as LR pretty useless if I can't import photos!!!
Here are my system details:
Mac (27-inch, Mid 2011)
3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB

Richard Makower wrote:
If it was iffy RAM would you not expect the same thing to happen with previously imported files?
More than likely yes (good point), although not necessarily.
Richard Makower wrote:
Could this be a problem with the USB port - if so how can I check it?
Definitely worth trying a different USB port (there may be a diagnostic, but I'm not aware of any). And also a different USB cable if applicable.

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