Lightroom won't import a folder of jpg's

I tried to import a folder of jpgs on my Mac. It successfully imported about 175 and then just stopped (but I've got about 5,000+ photos). It will no longer import a single photo. How do I find the offending photo so I can resume my imports. I told it to move photos so all photos left in the folder are new to Lightroom. If I deselect the first photo and try to import the rest.. I get the same problem. Thanks.

Thanks Dorin!!
you were correct! I didn't notice the rather hard to see icon on the one image shown which is displayed when a group of images are stacked together.
Simply unstacking the stack resulted in LR displaying all 1000+ images that were in the stack. How they got put into a stack in the first palce remains a mystery.
Ron

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when trying to import photos in to lightroom i select the ones i want and then click import it shows the progress bar on top and says its importing but it will never finish. it will just keep kelling me its importing photos.

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Shane-
 
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Beat,
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Hello Dj,
Thank you for taking the time to reply.(FYI my user level is someplace between intermediate and advanced.)
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Keith_Reeder wrote:
It's not a "wrong" error message - it's true, as far as it goes, and it's completely unrealistic to expect error messages to be fully diagnostic - they're a starting point.
Not wrong?
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