Lightroom is not importing photos from card reader. Help!

I have the latest version of lightroom 2.4. However when I try to import into the library module nothing happen. Any ideas how to fix this problem?
thanks,
Li

I somehow fix this problem.
I uninstalled lightroom from the hard drive and re-installed the lightroom
again, then, I download the up to date upgrade which is lightroom 2.4 for my
lightroom 2.0 version.
It works!
Thanks everyone for your concerns and for your answers.
Li.

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Would you spend 16 cents for “temporary backup” of 1,000 perhaps irreplaceable images until confirmed not corrupted during transfer to your hard drive and a second backup drive? I think so!
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Macuser72 wrote:
Aperture is not importing all photos from the card reader, i tried importing 720 photos and it was only seeing 480 photos, the card reader stopped reading, aperture was saying "loading assets", still, like if it was still reading the card. and the first time it loaded the pictures the import button was not availllable once not all the photos were not all loaded when the loading assets message stopped.
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1. Create a new folder on your desktop, then connect your card reader. Double-click one of the photos on the camera card to confirm that it opens properly, as you've said they normally do. Drag-copy the same photo from your camera card into the folder on the desktop. Now double-click the copy. Does it behave exactly the same way as the original, or not?
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