Check the Ownership & Permissions (Command/I) on the files and see that your user on the MacMini has permission for them. They may still be owned by the user on the iMac. Milton On Nov 28, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Robert Ashton wrote: > I have a friend that just bought a new macmini. She had some jpgs > on her old imac that we transfered to her new machine. When we > tried to bring the photos into iphoto but we get an unreadable file > error. If the files where corrupt I could understand this error but > we can load the files into preview and see the pictures. We tried > both importing and dragging the jpgs into iphoto but always got > the same error. Any one that has an idea on how to solve this we > would be thankful. Bob Latest iphoto. and 10.4.3 >