My latest attempt to import photos from my slr resulted in an error. Something to thew effect of file not compatible. never had this problem before.

My latest attempt at moving photos from my slr to iphoto resulted in an error, something to the effect of file not compatible. Never happened before. Made about six attempts...no change. any ideas?
Thanks

What system and iPhoto versions are you using? What camera model and are you shooting just jpegs or RAW or both?
See if you can launch Image Capture and get it to recognize your camera. If it does then download the photos to a folder on the Desktop to get them safely on the hard drive.
See if the files can be imported into iPhoto from that folder.
Reformat the memory card with your camera, take some test shots and try to import into iPhoto directly.
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