Problems importing photos to Lightroom 5.7 on iMac with Yosemite

I have photoshop 5.7..creative cloud and it is installed on a iMac late 2014 27 retina display with Yosemite operating system.. Lightroom seems to work fine except it will not impost photos from any camera I load up to it.. I can upload photos to iPhoto but not to lioghtroom.. any suggestions?> Thanks

That doesn't make any sense. If you can load the images into iPhoto, you should be able to load them into Lightroom. What I guess is going on is that you have the wrong destination folder selected in Lightroom. If your destination is in a place where Lightroom cannot write files (this is true for both the windows and mac os versions) it will throw an error that it cannot read the files. Very counterintuitively it will then tell you that because it cannot write to the location. So check to make sure the destination selected is in your home folder (typically inside Pictures) instead of the root level of your hard drive or another location where it shouldn't go.

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