Iphoto won't open/accept images from USB drive

Hello. I copied a bunch of photos from another mac onto a USB drive. Then I put them on my desktop. They are all jgp files (IMG_033.jpg, for example) , but I can't open any of them. I can't open them from the desktop, I can't drag them into iphoto, and I can't do it by importing from iphoto. I also tried renaming the files and using preview (based on what someone said in another posting) and that doesn't work either. I get messages that say "Unreadable file cannot be imported" (when I try via iphoto) or "original item can't be found" (when I try from desktop or preview).
Help?

nasreen
original item can't be found" (when I try from desktop or preview).
Sounds like you didn't copy the files to the usb device, but instead made aliases to them.
Do the icons have a little arrow on them? What size are the files?
Regards
TD

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