The file "?" could not be opened because it is empty.

I put about 30 photos on my thumb drive so I could take them with me.  I saw them on the drive at one point, now on some of them I am getting the error; "The file "?" could not be opened because it is empty."   The file still is large in size, and there is data there, but "Preview" will not open it. These are important photos for work, and I want to know if there is any other way to retrieve them.  Also, does anyone out there know why it did this.  Only some of the photos can no longer be opened, and I did NOT edit any of them.  I simply drug them over to a portable drive.
Thank you,
Darren

Does this involve iPhoto in some way?

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