Exclamation mark on large view, but file still there?

Hi,
I've seen a few other people with this problem, but I seem to have a different variant. I have a new computer, new iPhoto library. For a small number of photos when I double click on a thumbnail it shows a black screen with an exclamation mark. This problem only seems to effect photos from one event which have been rotated (the dates have been adjusted on the photos as the camera had the wrong date).
- I tried rebuilding the iphoto library as suggested and that didn't fix the problem.
- When I search for the filename of any of the effected photos I find them on my drive, in the iphoto library. If I try and drag and drop the file onto iPhoto it wont do it, telling me that its already in the library.
- If I try and edit one of the effected photos they appear at large size on the screen.
- If I rotate these photos back to the original orientation the problem remains.
Any suggestions as to how to fix this would be appreciated. Its only effecting about half a dozen photos, so a manual method is feasible. However, I don't want to start the iphoto library from scratch as I've just tagged the 8000+ photos and don't want to do that again.

sellings
Try selecting the affected pics and going Photos -> Revert to Original. Then try rotate them again.
Regards
TD

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