Lightroom no longer imports photos

I have been using lightroom 4 for over a year and suddenly I am unable to import my photos. The message says that the photos cannot be read. I haven't changed anything. Thanks for the help.

joegoldston wrote:
I have been using lightroom 4 for over a year and suddenly I am unable to import my photos. The message says that the photos cannot be read. I haven't changed anything. Thanks for the help.
and then you say:
THanks guys
I am not sure what write permissions are. I use an external hard drive (WD) to store my photos because my internal drive was full and so I moved my library to that hard drive as well. Does your suggestion mean that I am probably locked out of my external hard drive? There is a lock/unlock feature on it that I can change with a password.
Joe, "So I moved my library to that hard drive" is not the same as "I haven't changed anything."
ON the Mac, select the drive icon and use Get Info. Open the little lock icon using your user password and change the permissions for your user account to read and write. I have no idea how this is done in Windows.
However, there is no good reason why this drive should be balking at your user account, whether it's a PC- or a Macintosh-formatted drive. That's worth another post or two, probably.

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