Photos do not show up when I click on them

When I double click on horizontal photos, they will not show up in the big screen. Instead I see a dark image with a white "!". This doesn't happen with the vertical photos, only the horizontal photos. I just imported all of my photos from iPhoto to our new laptop. It doesn't happen when we open photos using iPhoto's older version on our desktop. Only now with iPhoto 9. Why won't the horizontal photos show up? We also cannot use horizontal photos for desktop pictures. Only the vertical photos will save as a desktop picture.

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1. Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild and use the command to check and repair permissions in the Library
if that fails:
2. Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
3. Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

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