What does "Allow Photos to Access Your Media?" mean?

I don't know what this means. My iPhoto library has been migrated to Photos. It only asks me for this on pictures I had before I updated. The message says this:
"Allow Photos to Access Your Media?
Some of your photos and videos are stared outside of
the Photos library. Photos needs permission to
access this media. Please choose the folder names
"JoshuaAnderson" at the path "Macintosh HD/User?".
I've done this but what comes back is:
"Could not find the original file
"File Name.jpg" in the selected folder.
Would you like to try to locate it again?"
I've tried selecting the whole HD but that doesn't work either. I haven't deleted any of these pictures and they show up in the Photos app.
Am I doing something wrong or did I lose my photos in the migration?

I've have the same issue. The photos that imported directly into iPhoto have migrated fine, I have about 12,000 photos that were referenced, or dragged in I suppose you could say, into iPhoto. These photos have not been referenced, and need to be consolidated. But when I do this, it gives me this error, and seemingly one photo at a time, it asks me to give permission, then physically find the photo.
It takes about 2-3 minutes a photo to do this. Obviously I am not going to do this 12,000 times.
I assume that there is a much easier way to do this. I have repaired disk permissions etc.

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