Iphone 4 and Iphoto uploads

I have just tried to upload my new photos to iphoto from my new iphone 4 and it is not recognising the file types so will not upload them.
Error message reads, Unreadable file: the following files could not be imported (they may be an unrecognised file type or the files may not contain valid data).
Help!!

Hi, I've suffered this same problem. I recently migrated from a PC to a Mac and none of the other posts I've found on Apple have helped. I tried deleting the plist file for iPhoto, resetting the iPhone and doing any of the iPhoto library rebuilds. In the end, I found this post online that helped me 100%. I'll post the steps and the link to the post for credit. I hope this helps someone else too. Please see the post about restarting the computer or not.
Post: http://www.calpernia.com/iphoto-wont-import-iphone-4-media-a-fix/
Steps:
* Quit iPhoto
* Open Activity Monitor (Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor.app)
* In the search window at the top right, search for PTPCamera
* Click on PTPCamera in the list of results to highlight it
* Click on Quit Process (the red stopsign icon in the upper left of Activity Monitor)
* Choose “Quit”
* If you don’t already see “Image Capture Extension” in the list, search for it in the search box. Click on “Image Capture Extension” in the list of results to highlight it
* Choose “Quit”
* Go to Macintosh HD > System > Library > Image Capture > Devices and open PTPCamera.app back up
* Unplug and re-plug the iPhone 4. iPhoto should open, if you’ve set it to do so when a camera is plugged in. Otherwise, open it. You should see your media available for import from the iPhone 4 when you click on the iPhone 4 in the devices list.

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