Very slow importing of photos from camera lightroom 4.4

I'm trying to import photos directly from my nikon D7000 as I normally do, but today, it is taking forever. I have tried restarting lightroom, as well s my MAC and also tried optimizing my catalog, and also installed software updates. HELP!!

I would not risk storing all the pictures of a trip to a single 16 GB card... Using your IPAD as backup seems a very good idea.
About the speed of uploading a library of 16 GB, it's not much more than copying 16GB to your computer from a card or a USB stick. You can test it yourself; 'getting' files from the card into the catalog is quick after the 16GB are copied, the only step which will be longer is the creation of the thumbnails, but that does not prevent you from working in the organizer before they are created.

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I've been using the same method to import photos from my camera to iPhoto '09 with no problem ever since we got this computer. All of the sudden, the photos will not import and the error message says the file format is unreadable. All photos have the name.jpg format.

Welcome to Apple Discussions, Julie.
Remove the following to the trash and restart the computer and try again:
Home > Library > Caches (I remove the whole folder. It will be re-generated upon restart.)
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.iPhoto (There will may be more than one. Remove them all.)
If the issue persists these jpeg files may be damaged. Try importing them using Image Capture found in Macintosh HD > Applications.
If Image Capture can import them you can then try to add them to iPhoto.
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_Ensure your camera has a full charge on the battery before you import (Or run off of AC if possible).
_Ensure the date and time on the camera are correct before importing.
_If you are using a media card reader and are getting regular failures, try using a different reader or the camera itself (The same is true about importing directly from the camera. Try a reader instead.)
_Plug the camera directly into the computer with a solid connection, no loose cables. Don't use a hub.
_Reformat the camera's media card using the camera itself between uses.
_Alternate between multiple media cards during photo shoots (trips, etc) so that if one card goes bad (they are just little bits of plastic after all) you don't lose the entire shoot.
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I'm having a few importing photo's using Bridge CS5, as I'm on holidays at the moment I'm trying to keep my photo's on both my laptop as well as leaving a copy on the SD card of the camera (as a form of backup), however whenever I import photo's from the camera Bridge is creating a duplicate (e.g. file-2.jpg, file-3.jpg etc). Is there any way to stop this behaviour and only import new photo's?
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Hi Curt, that should work but I was hoping that there might be an option somewhere to not import photo's which are duplicates.. I guess maybe not..
Thanks for for your help anyway.

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I have Creative Cloud for Photographers, it´s installed on my iMac and my MacBook Air. I use Lightroom to import photos from the camera. A few days ago I wanted to import some photos to the MacBook, but after a while everything stopped, no photos were imported and after waiting quite some time I gave up. Tried again after a while but then got the message that the files couldn´t be read. It worried me a lot as I was afraid the memory card might have got damaged, but I tried to import the photos to the iMac instead and it was no problem. After that I have tried to import other photos from various cameras to the MacBook, but nothing works. To the iMac - no problem. I then tried to uninstall Lightroom, but it was not possible. In the Creative Cloud-app It is possible to uninstall Photoshop, no problem, but with Lightroom it says "cannot be uninstalled" - on both the iMac and the MacBook.
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As I am not a Mac person, I cannot explain how to change permissions, but I'm sure your favorite search engine will find the instructions.
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Can't import photos from camera -"Insufficient disk space on volume"?

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This has been reported - not sure if there ever was a solution or not - search the forums to find the threads
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