Photos on hard drive cannot be imported into iPhoto
I've got several thousand photos I've downloaded from my CF cards (pics taken with Nikon Coolpix 950) onto my hard drive. They are recognized as photos by Photoshop, Preview, Word, etc., but iPhoto (v5.0.4) says, "The following files could not be imported (they may be an unrecognized file type or the files may not contain valid data)".
If I import directly from the CF card, iPhoto imports ok. I really want to be able to add all my photos to iPhoto. Any ideas?
Thanks!
John, some questions...
Are the images on an external or the internal of another computer?
Are you dragging them from the other computer to your desktop, then trying to import them into iPhoto?
Have you tried created a new library and importing them into that?
Have you tried creating a new administrative user, open iPhoto and try importing the images into that new library?
I forgot if you mentioned this, but are the images jpg?
If not, what are they?
On the other hard drive is there an iPhoto (you mentioned that)? Have you opened that iPhoto and imported the images into that library?
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