Can't open photos

after I've imported photos from my camera into Lightroom & put certain ones in a file to put on a flash drive, I am unable to open my own photos again. Adobe claims that my serial number is invalid but it is the one right there on the computer

Hi there,
I would first do this, drag photos to your desktop if possible. and then just click on them and I believe they will open in Preview.
You can always import into iPhoto by dragging them to icon or using the import function in iPhoto...
Rick
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1. I'm shouting because you don't seem to be hearing me when I'm speaking normally.
I (and others) are hearing. And we are offering what we can. You're
just not accepting it, in the spirit given, even if it's not what you
had hoped to hear.
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get is the fact that - even if you can't get what you want (i.e.,
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>
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