Import problems with lightroom 5

I am suddenly having a problem importing photos from my camera into Lightroom 5. The message I get says file cannot be read. I even tried another camera to make sure it wasn't my camera and I got the same result. Any help would be appreciated. I have a mac.

Hi,
I already had started a new thread previously however the answer I received
was a bit confusing to me so I started to look for other threads.
My issue relates to the one mentioned here about importing to LR. I keep
getting messages saying the files can't be read and the answer was to check
my destination permissions (whatever that means)?
I did not know how to view (or even change permissions and came across
Geoff's suggestion to use CMD-1 however that does not seem to work so I
wanted to find out more about the solution.
Cheers,
David
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