IPhoto Importing Nonexistent Photos

Every time I open iPhoto it says it found a photo in the iPhoto library that was not imported. But whenever I hit import, it just creates an album without anything in it. Is there anyway to fix this, or find the files that are causing the problem? Any ideas would be great!

Hey Science Guy
Welcome to the Apple user to user assistance forums
quit iPhoto and right click (control click) on the iPhoto library and select show package contents - in the package contents find the folder names import (or importing) and drag it to the desktop - launch iPhoto and you will be fine - open the import(ing) folder on the desktop and verify that there is nothing you want to save in it (if there is import the photos to iPhoto) and then drag the import(ing) folder to the trash
Do not change or move anything else in the iPhoto library
LN

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There are 9 different versions of iPhoto and they run on eight different versions of the Operating System. The tricks and tips for dealing with issues vary from version to version and OS to OS. So before anyone can help, they need information to work with. Things like:
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- What version of the Operating System.
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"Try Disk Utility
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Either boot this one in Target mode...
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Hello Terence,
Okay I will try reformating the camera's card. However all is well when I export photos to my iMac at home or onto my iPad.
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Sorry,
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