Import photos from a different Lightroom catalog

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hi. when i try this import, i cannot do the following step:
"Specify the photos to import:
Under Catalog Contents, make sure the folders containing the photos to import are selected.
To select or deselect individual photos, click Show Preview, and click the box in the upper-left corner of any preview image. You can also choose Check All or Uncheck All."
there is a dash mark / hyphen  marking several of the boxes that represent the various folders   -    like so.
if i click on them? nothing happens. if i click on the empty boxes? nothing happens. i don't seem to have a way to select any of these.
in the Finder of my Mac (OS 10.6.8), the file structure i'm importing from works just fine. all the folders open, the files are .jpgs that can open up in Preview.
thanks

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