Movie clips won't play - OSStatus error -54

I am organizing all of my movie clips, some of which date back a few years. Since the last time I did this, something has happened and they will not play. I get the following error message: OSStatus error -54 Does anyone know of a solution?

You have the names of these files in iPhoto, right?
Download Find Any File
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/
It's a search app that looks in places where Spotlight simply doesn't look. See if it can find them.
Cause? Updating the system won't do this, but there are a million ways things can go wrong. I wouldn't worry about Apple cutting iPhoto. The current version will run on 10.10 for the foreseeable future - that's at least another year. Even when the next OS comes out, it may run on that too. If it doesn't, well releasing the new Photos.app and upgrading the OS will not turn iPhoto off or stop it working.

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