Some iPhoto files won't transfer from external drive to the hard drive.

I had all of my photos on an external drive and I wanted to put them on the hard drive of my iMac.
While copying all of the photos over, some of the files copied as 0 bytes into the "Data," "Originals," and "Modified" folders, but not the same files. So, some images have no thumbnail image in iPhoto (guessing from "Data"), some have no original image, but have a modified image, and some have no image at all (the 0 byte files that are only in "Originals."
The images are all fine on the external drive still.
Any idea of what I can do? Any file I can zap from the library or something to make this work?
Thanks for your help.

Open the library on the EHD with the Finder as shown in this screenshot
and look in the Masters folder to see if any of the original files have zero bytes? Do not make any other changes/alterations, i.e. look but don't touch.  If you do find zero byte image files  then it's not the copy process that is the culprit but the files are bad to start with.
OT

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