I have been using premiere cs6 through creative cloud for a couple years now on my 2012 27" iMac with 20gb of ram and 3.4ghz i7 processor. I shoot with a canon xf100 and 2 canon dslr's. When I import my footage into premiere using the File>import method it creates duplicates the clips, sometimes tripling them. Not only that but they are all out of order and random. So i started using the media browser and importing them in the list view instead of the icon view, this kept the clips all in order and with no duplicates. That was great until last week when premiere decided it should crash every time I import (xf or dslr footage, it doesnt matter) premiere full out crashes saying it has "encountered an error and must shut down". I cant figure out why!? I tried updating and that hasnt helped at all. Googled it, still nothing. Any ideas?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Trash your preferences and empty your media cache.
See if that will help.

Found a very stupid solution to this problem. In the media browser if i select all the files by clicking and dragging instead of cmd+a everything imports fine. Weird!