Lightroom hanging on import from SD Card

When importing Nikon RAW images from an SD card on Lightroom 5.7 and copying to harddrive (Macbook Pro 5,4 15", OSX Mavericks, 8Gb Ram, 1Tb HDD), Lightroom hangs. When 'import' is stopped, it is not possible to import from the same source a second time (though SD Card is still shown as connected in finder).
Lightroom will then not shut down and needs to be force-quitted.
If I copy all of the images to a new folder on the desktop, everything works fine. If I add the SD card as a library location and import to itself, it works fine.
This problem has only started happening with LR5.7. All previous versions of Lightroom 3, 4 and 5 worked perfectly.
The problem report (to be sent to Apple) is below:
Chris

I use an SD card and checked it with MS Explorer, no error messages, neither with the restore programs, so I assume it is ok.
In LR I tried to import the files: Copy to new location (on hard drive) plus parallel backup copy to another folder. Seemed to work ok until I clicked in LR on the "cancel import". Import stopped.
I deleted the imported images (if I remember correctly I used the LR function) as I wanted to have them in the same folder but with correct numbers.
Started again to import but as mentioned above, no images could be found by LR on the card. Checked with MS Explorer - no error messages, but no files, all 1.88 GB free on card.
Used two different recovery programs, both recovered all 99 images and copied them to a folder on the hard drive.
Tried again with LR to import from hard drive folder. All 99 image file names appeared in the preview, but all images apart from the first 14 plus image 22 were completely grey (as the frame). And only the 14+1 were imported.

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