Back Up Problem: Movies

Hi,
I have been backing up my photos/movies on an external hard drive for some time. Today, I did another back up, and when I tested the short movies taken on my digital camera, they will not play; instead the movie jumps to the end without playing anything in Quicktime. I tried dragging the .mov file to the desktop, but the same thing happens. The movies still play in iPhoto--just not anywhere else. Is this a Quicktime issue or is something else happening?
Many thanks.
lsb

When you export a movie from Photo you need to make sure you use the Kind:Original setting in the export dialogue, otherwise you get the thumbnail that iPhoto creates from the first frame of the movie.
For backing up iPhoto check out a utility such as DejaVu which will preserve all of your iPhoto organisation. Your current scheme only gets the current version of the photos.
Regards
TD

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