Lightroom import problem, or damaged catalogue

Hi, tried to import a large file of large raw pics directly from flash card into lightroom. the file was a bit big and it crashed.
now it wont import at all, even one pic from hard disk.
I ran the catalog optimiser. no change.
I upgraded from 2.6 to 2.7 hoping a bug fix might be there.
no better.
I removed lots of pics to reduce size (had over 8000 pics in lightroom) and re-optimised
but still no import. no error message just no importing.
any ideas anyone?

Hi , thanks John, sorry I have been away for a few days.
I am trying to get a consistent behaviour to a set of circumstances so I can give you specific details, in case it helps you spot the problem or suggest a cure.
here are details of todays experiments...
i now have 3 catalogs set up under the PC user where the problem occurs. (under the windows admin user there is no problem, only the one where the error/corruption has happened.)
the 3 catalogs are - 1. a brand new one I set up to try and see if i could recreate the importing failure
2. the original corrupted one.
3 an exported one from the original above
I have several folders of pictures copied from the flash drive onto the hard drive. the pictures are around 18 to 20 mb each taken in RAW.(pics from this camera have been processed many times before without problem)
If I take a folder with 17 pics in it - it imports fine into the new cat (number 1) but it fails after one or 2 pics in both 2 and 3.
When I import I use the following import settings :
add photos without moving, dont re-import suspected duplicates, dev settings -none, metatdata - none, keywords window - blank, Initial previews minimal.
I start the import, and loads a few pics (sorry when I repeat this sometimes it takes just one and sometimes a 2 or 3), then it stops with the import progress bar showing at top left of screen as partially imported. it hangs there and nothing happens, I come back later but no change. so I close lightroom and it says there is an import in progress do i want to quit or wait. well wait just hangs so i try quit.
When I open the same catalog again, it has the folder showing on the left but only one or 2 pics in it, so I tried the suggestion in your last post, i right clicked on the folder and selected synchronise. it syas it is waiting to import the reamining 14 or so pictures with ticks on 'import new photos', 'show dialog' and 'scan for metadata' so i try the import again. i click to show preview - all the pics show on the preview fine.
but the import tries and stops with the dialog progress bar in the top left and no activity.
I left it for ages but nothing.
As it works fine on the new small catalog and fine on different pc user catalogs, I think the problem must lie in the catalog of number 3 and exporting it (number2) also has the same problem.
So i am thinking I will just have to import all 8000+ pics into a new catalog and bin the old one however i will loose all my tagging and editing etc.
any othe ideas?

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