This is a known bug, caused by, believe it or not, having too many icons on your desktop. You can either clean them up, or just type the disk address you need in the text box at the bottom of the offending dialogue box.

Doing the latter seems to not only be a work-around, but a real cure.

Hal

Jim,

Whoops. I didn't read the OP's post carefully enough. He wasn't where I thought he was.:(

What do you reckon? Time to delete the Prefs file?

http://www.lightroomforums.net/showthread.php?14226-Resetting-%28or-Tr ashing-%29-the-Lightroom-Preferences-file

Hal

By system drive, I mean the drive (typically C:) on which the OS is installed. In the absence of a screenshot I just trying to establish exactly what does work properly, and what doesn't.

There is no checkbox on the Import screen for "Show Hidden Files"....that's a setting in the View Options of Explorer, which is what I thought you meant. I'll take it that you really mean that you have checked "Include Subfolders".

Are there any unusual characters in the folder names or in the parent folder's name? Symbols, punctuation marks of whatever kind need some care and caution. Extended characters for non-latin letters and accented letters should be OK, though, as far as I know (Unicode).

The following are reserved system names: CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9

and apparently ending a name with a dot (period) or a space is not a good idea. So perhaps completely re-typing a trial folder name just to check there are no weird control characters, may do no harm?

[edit: also I would check whether the full folder and file path, including everything, is very long - for example, > 260 characters.]

Thanks, but the screenshot of the Import Screen as shown doesn't really help. Can you collapse the C drive so that we can see the H drive in the left-hand column, then retake and pst another screenshot.

What kind of phone have you got connected there? Have you tried importing with that phone disconnected?

EDIT: Ok, thanks for the amended screenshot.

Well, I can't see anything wrong with that drive, so I'm struggling to understand what's going on here. I'd be interested in knowing what happens if you disconnect that phone (I vaguely recall some import problems a while back that were attributed to having a smartphone connected).