Moving Photos from PC to Mac

I just got a macbook pro and when I try to move pictures from my pc to my mac using a jump drive iPhoto never recognizes them. I can view them in the finder but when I try and import them into the iPhoto library they aren't recognized! Any suggestions or help?

Save the photos to another location on your Mac first. A folder on the desktop is a convenient temporary place. Once successfully copied on your hard drive, you can use Old Toad's BatChmod fix to correct any permissions issues.
"...download and run BatChmod on the iPhoto Library folder with the settings shown here, putting your administrative name, long or short, in the owner and group sections. You can either type in the path to the folder or just drag the folder into that field."
Then you should be all set to import the photos into your iPhoto library. Once imported, you can delete the desktop folder, as iPhoto will copy the files into its library structure. (Unless you turn this feature off in iPhoto Preferences, which I don't recommend you do.)

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