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Hello, I hope someone can help me with this problem. I just transferred my photos from my pc to the folder "iPhoto" on my iMac. When I open Finder, my picture files are there, but when I open "iPhoto" and the Library is highlighted, there are no pics. At the bottom of the window it says "no items".
Why aren't the pics showing up in my Library? I decided to try and Import to Library (from File on menu), but it says cannot import because files are in my Library! lol??
Appreciate any help. This is my first MAC computer, so I'm just learning my way around it.. Thank you.

Drag them out of the iPhoto Library folder *in the Finder* and put them in a folder on the desktop. Open iPhoto. Then open the folder on the desktop, select the pictures in the folder, and drag them into the open iPhoto window. They will be imported into the library.
Pictures that are already inside an iPhoto Library folder can't be imported into that library or any other. Trying to do so will always produce the "unreadable files" error message. It's not a clear message, but this is why you're seeing it.

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