Portrait photos are black in iphoto

Hi all,
I've been looking on the forums and it seems like this is a fairly common problem, however I think mine might be slightly different. I have a Mac Book Air (10.8.2) and I'm using iPhoto (9.4.2). I've been downloading photos off my canon DSLR for ages and about a week ago I did a download and it was a bit of a problem. My computer kept saying it had run out of space on the hard drive and for a while I had been slowly moving stuff across to an external hardrive. Eventually there was enough room to download my photos so I did, and deleted the downloaded ones off my camera at the prompt like normal. As I was travelling I didn't have enough time to check them carefully and my computer was a bit slow, so I thought the rest would probably load later and didn't worry to much.
What I have found now is that all the other photos loaded fine and only the portraits remain affected. I tried the rotate and return to original as suggested and it worked only on one of the photos but not on the others. When I looked at the original photos in Finder they are the right size for a photo but are also black. When I tried to open with photoshop I get the message: Could not complete your request because an unknown or invalid JPEG marker type is found.
I just tried downloading my final holiday photos and they worked fine (both landscape and portrait), so it is really only one batch which is wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thank you!

It sounds like while trying to import the photos with insufficient disk space those image files were damaged and not copied fully. Now that you have sufficient space (a minimum of 10 GB is recommended) the latest imports are good.
What do you get if you export one of the problem photos out of iPhoto as Kind=Original and try to open it with Preview. If it appears the same then there's nothing you can to do recover them.
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