Unable to import photos from external drive

[dUnKle]

I’m trying to upload my photos, backed up onto an external hard drive, into Apple photos, via my max mini

however nearly every single one fails. All photos, almost without exception, have been taken on an iPad or iPhone and all photos can be viewed on the Mac. But when dragging them into photos I get the following message

 

[deep diver]

I don't use Apple Photos, so I can't help you directly. This kind of issue has come up before. You might want to search the archives.

 

[AlaskaMoose]

My answer is probably too late, but just in case: I will tell you what you can do. In the external drive, place all the photos in a folder, then drag that folder to your desktop. Now, import your photos into Photos from the folder in the desktop.

That said, I agree with others about Photos not being the best photo app to use. It's OK, but that's all there is to it.