New Nikon Coolpix P1 -- cranky importing

My daughter just got a Nikon Coolpix P1 camera.
When we plug in the camera and start importing as usual the thing seems cranky. It gave me an error message:
"the following files could not be imported (they may be an unrecognized file type or files may not contain valid data)" followed by a list of all the photos.
I turned off, unplugged, replugged, turned on, shut down other programs, bla bla bla and after a few tries it finally did work.
Now I wonder if there are things I should do, setting to set, etc. that will avoid these problems in the future.
My other camera -- a fuji -- I just plug it in and download. Why would this be cranky?
The camera is wifi equiped but I did this download hardwired through USB. Also it comes with a photo management program but I did not install hoping to just stick to iPhoto.
Any thoughts?
Many thanks

James
Add me to the list of annoyed and surprised Nikon customers. I brought my S6 to Pakistan for my birthday and visits to several cities, including one-time opportunities to take pictures inside the Prime Minister and President House buildings.
On importing the pics into iPhoto I found FIFTY files failing to import with the "unrecognized file type" etc. error even though EACH picture is visible fine in the camera.
Macs and Mac OS X are NOT at fault here, IMHO, because when I connected my card reader to Windows XP, none of these 50 files open there either. The camera shows them just fine.
Very strange and dangerous Nikon bug it seems.
Hope someone can point us to a utility to "repair" such JPEG/JPG files.
Imran

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