Restoring iphoto but missing files

I am restoring iPhoto photos from a backup CrashPlan and it apparently is missing files to actually PLAY the movies.
In the process of restoring, iPhoto said I had to update before I could restore my old photos.  I clicked on update.
Now it is "writing new iphoto library data."
However, I continually get messages that pop up saying, "The movie file "SANYO776.dv" cannot be found. Without this file, the movie cannot play properly. I have the option of "searching" or "cancelling."  I have to cancel because there is nothing on the computer to search yet.  When I  click on Cancel a message comes up "searching for movie data in file Clip 01.dv. I have to click on STOP, then the previous message comes up again, I click on Cancel.  It continually repeats about 4-6 times with EACH movie it is searching for.
Is there a way to set iPhoto to do the SAME PROCEDURE when it can't FIND a file??? Just cancel it? I know that can be done when you're putting in duplicate photos.  IPhoto will show a message where you can check to do the same procedure on duplicate photos.
I'll never get 9 hours worth of photos restored having to click on STOP and CANCEL 4-6 times for EVERY video that I've ever recorded since 2007.
This restore process really is quite impossible.  I'm not sure I'd recommend doing a RESTORE files to a computer.  Might as well start from scratch.  I may never accomplish this.

A Volume is a Hard Disk, or a partiton on a Hard Disk.
Hard Disks can be structured in different ways to hold the data, and iPhoto requires a Disk/Volume that is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). If the library is on a disk with a different format then the data won't be stored in an appropriate structure.
I'm 99.999% certain that Crashplan's server is not formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). VIrtually no servers are.
So, when you write the iPhoto Library to that server the data is not structured properly, and that's why you have problems when you restore.
It should be noted that ordinary files won't have a problem, in this sense they are Mac compatible. But an iPhoto Library is not an ordinary file. It's a complex ecosystem of interlinked databases, caches, metadata files plus you images. This is also true of Aperture and 3rd party apps like DevonThink Office and so on.
The best you can hope to do is get everything down from Crashplan first, and then see about cleaning up the mess.

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