Restoring iPhoto data file or ediitng Quicktime move made from iphoto

I wanted to edit an old slideshow I had done in iphoto (I don't know the version) a while ago. i thougfh i had saved the slideshow or library correctly . All I have from that time is a Data file with the name of the slideshow. I have tried to open it, import it into iphoto (I believe i am using the latest pre-purchased version) and all those atempts are unsuccessful. I have the quciktime move I had exported the slideshow into. I wanted to lengthen the transition time (dissolves) between the slides on the quicktime move. I am unable to edit the quicktime .mov. Even if I upgraded to Qucktime Pro I don't think I would be able to edit those transition times. what can I do?
Thanks

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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