In my iPhoto library some photoes are black

Some photoes at random are black, though I can find them being okey in finder ( strangely, there is changed file which is black as well so there are 2 types of one photo). Please help, don't know what to do!

I did post to the iPhoto forum and am hoping for an answer soon. I don't want to continue rebuilding my iphoto library if I can do it using originals. My library has 45,000 pictures...a huge job!

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