Photos won't import in to iPhoto 9.6 (Yosemite) from iPhone

Anybody seeing issues with importing photos in to the latest version of iPhoto 9.6 (910.29) from an iPhone (iOS 8.0.2)? Seems to get stuck on "Preparing to import".

The iPhoto Library is a disk image located in a shared folder on the HD to provide access even to another user account. The disk image has a size of 21 Gb ... maybe the problem is right there! Only 30 Mb available.
That is your problem. Sharing an iPhoto Library in a Shared folder between users is not supported. If you open the library from a different account the ownership of items inside the library will change and you will have to repair permissions after each write access from a different user account.
The only supported way to share a library is on an external disk or a partition with the "Ignore Ownership" flag set. See this Apple Support document: iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198
Sorry I missed the "disk image when I read your answer, but the size of the disk image is too small with only 30 MB available. Copy your library to a larger disk partition or a disk image with more storage space.

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itunes/iphone did not recongnize device
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Closed image capture
When back into iPhoto. When I clicked on "import photos" it would bounce to the "last import" screen and then an error message popped up that said jpg file is unrecgonizable. I tried several times. Even tried deleting photos that it highlighted as unrecognizable to no avail. Finally go frustrated and disconnected device and now the photos are gone. :-(
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