Loading photos from camera to iphoto

I am having trouble uploading photos from my lumix camera to my mac. In the past it has been no problem. Now all I get on my desktop is the symbol that the camera is connected. The symbol with 'no name', but usually it would then open IPhoto and load the pictures. Now, nothing.
Has anyone else ever experienced this, and what can I do to fix it?
Thank you

What exact camera? What version of iPhoto? are you shooting RAW or JPEG? is OS X 10.6.8 as reported in your profile correct? What has recently changed? Will Image Capture (in your applications =folder) import them? If you can get them off the card then use the camera's format command to erase and reformat the card
a best practice to is to never have any computer program (including iPhoto) delete the photos from the card but to import the photos and keep them and then after at least one successful backup cycle has completed and then reformat the card -- I use three very large (32 GB) cards in rotation so I do not reformat for typically a year or more giving me one more long term backup of my photos
LN

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