Cannot import photos.. "can't create directory where file exists"

Hi,
I am unable to import photos into Lightroom... every time I try to a message pops up that reads
I have no idea what this means or how to solve this issue. Lightroom is housed on my external hard drive... Recently, my old external HD conked out and I had to ship it off to the tech wizards who successfully removed and placed the data on a new HD. The problem importing started to occur after I began using the new external HD.
Please help! Thanks in advance

This could be a permissions issue. Check to see that you have write permissions for that destination folder. Don't just check your general permissions, check for that specific folder.

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