Moved files and both copied and original now Zero Bytes

I copied around 20gb of video files from one external disk to another only to find that both the original files and the newly created ones are now showing file sizes of Zero Bytes and are unplayable. The copying operation looked like it worked fine whilst Finder was working on the files. Any ideas how I can get these working again?

Hope you have a backup! The only way I can see that happening  is if the originals were already zero. Copying should not affect the source. How many files?

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