I got a new imac, and trying import some photo to my imac from external drive. Process as below:
1. Move those photo Mac locate drive
2. Drag to photo album
Everything good works except those file with "JPG", which show as "Unrecognized format", please kindly advice if something wrong in my process on it, as this is the first time I use Mac.
iMac with Retina 5K display
What version of the OS and of iPhoto do you have? What is the source of the photos? Will they open correctly in Preview? Have you tried using the import command (file menu ==> import)?
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It should be OS X. As the imax just bought last month. The source of photos were my old photo in the digital camera in year 2010-2011. I can preview all photo correctly.
What is import command, can you advice more detail to me, thx a lot.
I can preview all photo correctly.
That is abit ambiguous. Can the Preview application open them if you double-click the JPEG file on your Desktop to open them in Preview?
What is import command, can you advice more detail to me, thx a lot.
The Photos for Mac application has an Import command in the File menu in the main menu bar.
File > Import
This command will open a File Chooser panel where you can select the folder with the photos you want to import.
Are your JPEGs greyed out in this dialog panel or can you open them?
As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?
Post back with the result.
I repair my album, then restart the imac, and it now allow me to import JPG. Thx for all your help
iphoto import JPG (unrecognized format)
