Not importing photos at all...

I feel silly. I just bought LR 5 and upgraded to 5.3 on my Macbook. I hit ithe import button and select a folder on my hardrive with photos on it and then a circle on the bottom of the screen just spins and no images appear in the middle box for me to select.
What do I do?

Hi Geoff,
I am the same person with the question about my processor being up to speed with Lightroom 5. I posted what I hoped were the answers you needed 2G RAM and 500G of storage.
I thought that the size of the files might be the issue so I created a folder with a single image and I double clicked on the folder and the circle spinned and there was not image in the section where you choose images to add.
I checked on the return policy and only products that haven't been registered can be returned. Dratz, I had every intention on keeping it until now when I can't even complete the most basic function.
Robin

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