LR5 won't import all files in a folder

I'm trying to import files into a new LR5 catalog but it will only import some of them. The files are all jpg format. I've tried copying the files to another volume with the same result. About 70 of 79 or 150 of 219 files will be cataloged. The library matrix will have placeholders for all the files but only some will be previewed and only those previewed will be imaged.
Am I missing a preference setting?
Using MacOS 10.9 (Mavericks) on a MacBook Pro, 2.6 GHz Core i7 with 16 GB of RAM memory.

Thanks again for this lead. After initially getting nowhere with it it, and after investing a lot of time, it turned out that I was getting nowhere because Windows Explorer wasn't revealing all the files in the Photo folder of my network drive (despite my going through all the settings to Reveal Hidden Files, etc). When, in the search for the "missing" 600+ files that LR didn't find, I trawled the Photo folder with WinDirStat instead of Windows Explorer it revealed 167 files with the suffix .xmp and 369 files with the suffix.db (plus a smaller number of .bmp .jpeg, .pia, etc.). I don't know what the .db files are (possibly debris from previous photo indexing software) but presume that LR doesn't need them.. The .xmp files, I see, are an Adobe format and I don't know (yet; I'm reading the manual) whether LR uses them.
Again, thanks for your help.

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