Photoshop Lightroom 3.2 Import

Whenever I get to the import page to add photos I click on the drive I would like to import from, or Copy to Dng, Copy, etc. pretty much any of the options and the cursor in Windows 7 64 bit starts to spin and the whole application freezes for about a minute or so and it happens every time I go to import, whether it be internal or external hard drive, or SDHC card. I don't know how to avoid this it is annoying to have to wait for the application ot unfreeze to continue.

Ambaiman wrote:
... if I export them as TIFFs, do I lose any of the advantages of using NEFs...
Yes...nearly all of those advantages.  TIFFs are "baked", NEFs are "raw".  You can manipulate NEFs with changes like white balance and the method of demosaicing.  You can't do that with TIFFs (or JPEGs) nearly as effectively.
Every raw converter (including the one in the camera) has its own settings and algorithms and those aren't directly transferable to another raw converter using different settings and algorithms.

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