After the help I received from my last post about choosing compressed files for my X T-2, I've been using compressed files exclusively. For downloading, I've been using a USB-3 cable, easily plugged in to the left side of the camera. I do that to prevent accidentally leaving the card in the reader, or worse, being a clumsy person, losing the card. I realize this uses some camera battery power but I'm not a high volume shooter, and I have the battery grip which holds three batteries. I plug the camera in, turn on Lightroom CC 2015.7, the current version, then the camera, and see all my image previews in the import window with no problem.
Today, just as a trial, I pulled a card out of the camera, put it into my Hoodman Steel USB 3.0 UDMA reader, and the Lightroom download window showed a bunch of RAF icons, not the images themselves. FWIW, if I double click on a RAF icon, I can see the individual file! I then took some new images uncompressed and did it again. The uncompressed images show up just fine when using the reader, the compressed do not. Same cards (Sandisk 32GB Extreme Pro), same version of LR. I looked at my LR preferences and can see no obvious issue to explain this behavior. I normally plug the reader into a Tripplite USB 3 hub but also tried with the reader plugged directly into a USB 3 port on my Mac Pro. FWIW, I also checked my Retina Macbook Pro and the same thing happens when the card is placed into the laptop's card reader. The laptop also shows the images perfectly well when I plug the camera in with the the USB-3 cable.
Basically, Lightroom does not appear to "see" the images, just the RAF icon, when set up to import from a card in a card reader with the Mac Pro or slot on the Macbook Pro.
I hope and expect that there's a simple answer to this. Is it me, is it the card reader (if so, why is my Macbook Pro without a reader misbehaving?) is it Lightroom? Any suggestions would be appreciated. I assume others are successfully using card readers to download Fuji X T-2 compressed files. Thanks.