Lightroom 4 will not import any new photos from Camera or a folder, "could not be read message" or "could not copy to requested location message"

One day everything worked and the next everything except importing new photos worked. What could be the problem? Did a recient Adobe update do this?

These messages usually mean the destination folder does not have WRITE permission. Change your permissions. (It's possible that it stopped working because the destination folder was accidentally changed, in which case you may only need to change the destination folder back to what it was previously)

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