Some Itune movies showing Zero KB

I have made several mac movie mpeg-4 and quicktime movies; placed them in itunes movie section. Until today, they all played and I had no problems. Today they won't play, I looked at the original file in the finder, they are now show Zero KB. I have run Disk Utility and also Disk Warrior (itunes library is stored on an external hard drive). They have been tested, repaired and verified -- the files still show up as zero kb --- However, this is not happening to all of the files; there are still some files that show thee original number of KBs. Any Ideas?

ALSO - I did already run Spotlight to re-index...twice. No change.

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