Message in Develop "The File Could Not be Opened"

My photos are in an external 500 gig hard drive. I am using a new iMac. In Lightroom when I go to the develop module and select an image I get a message saying The File Could Not Be Opened. I can not do any editing. I can open photos from the hard drive in other programs and edit them but not in the Develop module of Lightroom. I have 1.2 version. I have had this happen before when for some reason the computer could not find the external hard drive. But it is finding it fine.
Gerald

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