LR has problem importing just from external drive

I am trying to import from an external drive into LR5. From the import panel I select the external drive and for some reason it displays and checks (check mark) all photos on my internal drive as well as the photos on the external drive. I remember when I first gone LR3 years ago I ran into the same issue and do not know what I did to resolve it.
As I am writing this I also tried just importing from a specific folder on my desktop and I get the same result. It appears as though LR is scanning my entire Macintosh HD drive instead of just the selected folder or drive. LR currently shows 132000 (and climbing) images to be imported and I know the selected folder only has around 500 images.
Any ideas?

Problem solved, for those that are interested or have this similar problem. After a few days trying to import to lightrrom from an external drive, I finally discovered this issue.
Somehow several shortcuts to the Machintiosh HD (equivelent to C:drive in Windows) got tucked away inside several folders. When LR started scanning the drive for for images it finds the "Machitosh HD" shorcut and beggins scanning the intire internal drive for jpg, png, tiff, psd etc... Once I found the shortcuts, inside the random folders, and deleted them all was well in the world of LR importing.
So even though this external drive had nothing to do with the internal drive, the "Machintosh HD" linked LR to the internal drive for scanning.

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