Lightroom 5 hangs on import

2017 now, and i am still having this problem.  roughly 30,000 images to import from a seagate 2tb hd, and twice i have uninstalled lightroom because at the end of the import it doesnt say complete, the bar just stops right at the end. Its very irritating because you never fully know if every process lightroom needs to do on a big import has been completed.

Its driving me insane tbh.  All i want is a notification after import telling that the import is complete.

This problem is NEVER going to go away. It is back in LR CC 2015.7

Sometimes the import dialog does not even appear, but most of the time it show up, a few thumbnails appear, but then it hangs.

Hey...Adobe...fix this please.

FINALLY SOLVED!!!!!

After spending hours and hours searching, reading, trying, installing and uninstalling I solve my problem.

Name of the event problem:              APPCRASH

Name of the application:                     lightroom.exe

Version of the application:                    5.3.0.10

Mark of the time of the application:   529d013a

Name of module with errors:             dvamarshal.dll

This was happening every time I tried to import a certain amount of pictures, it just allowed me to import 5 or 6 at a time.

This is what I did, and worked for me:

1. 1. Download the file: “ dvamarshal.dll “ from  http://dllyes.com/dvamarshal-dll/​
2. 2. Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.3, or wherever you have the Lightroom installed, and rename the existing file; "dvamarshal.dll" to "dvamarshal1.dll"
3. 3. Copy the file downloaded from the link above, and paste it.
4. 4. Close the program, and restart the computer.
5. 5. Open the application as an administrator, and for me it worked!!!

Hope it helps

Forgive me for repeating elements of the same questions/comments above, but I am stuck:

• I am trying to work on my iMac OS X Yosemite (v10.10.5) with a Lightroom 5.7 catalog that contains only 26 images. The image sizes range from 4 MB to 10 MB.  
• I disconnected all external hard drives from USB and Thunderbolt and managed to get through the excruciatingly slow import process with my 26 images. 
• In addition to being very slow to respond, when in the Develop pane, the large image display does not show me any of the adjustments I make to clarity, highlights, color treatment, etc.  
• When I reboot and try to start fresh, Lightroom no longer opens the most recently used catalog and instead tries to open catalogs so old that they no longer reside on my iMac. 

It boggles my mind how completely unusable Lightroom 5 has become or why anyone would continue to pay a monthly subscription for it.  Do any of you have any advice for these issues?  I would be terribly grateful if anyone can help.

After using Photoshop for almost 20 years, I am sadly starting to explore other software options for my business.

Adobe - do you want to address this import issue?  You guys are slipping!  Between the awful Premiere update and now this, wtf?

I am using Lightroom CC with the most recent version 2.1. It includes a new import module and it is freezing up almost every time that I try to import. I have 16G RAM on an Dell XPS using Windows 10

I have Lightroom 5.6 on Windows 7 64-bit.  And I'm having exactly the same problem.

It's the same Olympus camera, the same procedure I've been doing for the last 3 years.  No recent changes.  No new software. But when I try to import, it takes me forever to get access to the camera (via USB) and when I've selected the pictures and clicked Import, it just sits there.  If you're in Windows 7, you can see the progress on the LR icon in the Quick Launch bar and it doesn't move after getting about 10% of the way.

I even checked and changed folder security, restarted LR, restarted Windows, restarted the camera and nothing changes.

I'm thinking of going back to LR4.

One thing -- I can go to the Catalog page and drag and drop the pictures from Windows Explorer into LR.  Annoying and not particularly good practice, but it does work.

Hi

I am running LR 5.7 and the problem of files not being imported has suddenly occurred.  In a folder I can see all the photos with finder.  I then initiate the import from an external hard drive, the photos appear one screen at a time (?72 photos) and then the next screen and so on.  The indicator at the side does not move.  As the screefull loads it dims, then lightens then disappears.  When the last screen loads it also disappears and LR says that there are no files to import.

I have tried the same photos (identical) from another attached drive also giving the same problem.  If a folder has just a few simple JPGs they will stay on the screen.  I read the NEF comment about the nikon software perhaps being at fault, however I mistakenly thought that  this might be the answer as most of my files are NEFs but it is also a problem with JPGs.  The only change that has occurred is that yesterday I had trouble transferring a large number of photos to an USB stick and my new Imac hung eventuly forcing me to turn it off after several hours.  The RAM is 8 gig and was still clogged today as a result of the hang up, hoiwever having cleaned it, the problem is still there.  The transfer was being done with finder and was not of any of the photos failing to import. 

The programme is useless as a result of this, it is like being back on Windows.

Could do with some help.

John

Ok, thought I'd let anyone following this post that I finally got a call from Adobe about 3 days ago. The Rep changed the name of my LR prefs file with .old as the extension. Then of course opened LR selected the catalog and selected optimize and test integrity check boxes. Once he did that I was able to import again without LR getting hung up on trying to find an import location that no longer exists. I have no idea what caused the problem. The rep also went online and find some text that defines each of the date fields in LR database. Now I understand better what LR is supposed to do when a file is imported, exported, edited in an external program, etc. However, I am still convinced that LR has changed the "Date Taken" for some of my files. I was not able to get LR to do this while the Rep was on the line so I am going to watch diligently to see if I can get evidence of the "Date Taken" being changed by LR and not by me.

Note: Adobe Rep had to go back and reclaim the old prefs file so I could get back my identity plate and metadata setting.

Just downloaded trial version of LR5.6 and started importing photos from my "pictures" folder - everything on the same HD on my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.8.5) - and it got to 1100 of a bit over 5000 pics and stopped in the middle of a folder. Folder had similar content to 4 previous folders that came in OK: a folder of .jpgs within a folder holding a month of .nefs; brought in all the .nefs and stopped after 19 of 36 .jpegs. Have tried to restart importing at the next folder in line, it says it's 'importing files ...' but just sits there doing nothing. Grrr.