IPHOTO not recognizing format of photo's from camera

The SD card on my camera somehow changed the format on the pictures while I was trying to transfer them to my laptop to .jpg     Now it won't let me upload them from the camera to iphoto, it says that it is an unrecognizable format

Pretty much every camera on the planet shoots jpeg, so it's unlikely that your SD card did anything.
That message is often an indication of a problem in the iPhoto Library.
As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?
Post back with the result.

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