Error message pops up "The following files could not be imported because they could not be read."

Lightroom has suddenly stopped recognizing files on my camera's sd cards.  An error message pops up "The following files could not be imported because they could not be read."  My iphoto app can download them so why can't Lightroom?

The answer is here - about a million times over - and it's not a Lightroom problem. It's actually a Mac OS issue. You need to fix the write permissions on the destination folder for the import.

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