IPhoto cannot read iPhone JPGs

I have never had a problem loading pictures from my iPhone into iPhoto until today, when all of a sudden, iPhoto pops up a screen that says
"Unreadable File: The following files could not be imported (they may be an unrecognized file type or the files may not contain valid data)."
I have rebooted both my iMac and iPhone. All the images are JPG. Something ain't right.

Thanks, Terence. My concern was that iPhoto was not recognizing the JPGs for some reason. I went ahead with Image Capture, downloaded to my desktop, and drug them (5 files) to iPhoto, and lo and behold, when it opened, it finally recognized my iPhone.
Thanks for a round-about fix!

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Message was edited by: Jengirlie

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