HT2638 The media can't be used because you don't have access privileges, or because it has no content or is corrupt.

This is the message I get when moving photos from iphoto to pages. It should be seemless and I did this on my previous imac OK
Any idea
Thanks

What version of iPhoto? How are you moving photos? Have you read this user tip on accessing your photos?
LN

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