URGENT - Corrupt photo file

Can anyone help with the following error message :
Unable to Assemble Book
There is a problem with the photo with the file name "DSC_0090.JPG" The full resolution version of this photo either cannot be located or is corrupt. Please replace the photo or delete it from you book.
My problem is that this photo is not even in my book and I have tried to delete it and reload another copy but am still getting this annoying message.

Finally I could order the photo book. I figured out, that you cant't open these "corrupt" files in iPhoto: you get a big "?" on black background when you open these pictures in iPhoto (e.g. Events). But I could open without problems the "corrupt" files in the iPhoto library (in Apple Finder). So what I did is: "repair" these "corrupt" photos by reimporting these files into iPhoto (got doubles) and then deleted the "corrupt" ones from iPhoto. After doing the same within the photo book, everything worked fine.
The question remains: how did I get these "corrupt" photos in iPhoto? The process of rebuilding the iPhoto databases (press alt-cmd at start of iPhoto) somehow did not work.

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Wonder if anyone is having a similar problem.
My wife and I each have a Gmail account. The setup is that mail goes to an iPhone and a MacBook Air for me and an iPhone, an iPad and a MacBook Pro for my wife.
When we receive some emails with photo attachments (the sender's email account is irrelevant, as it happens across various platforms) and open them in either the iPhone or iPad, the photo file is often corrupted. However, when we open the same email file in either laptop, the photo is fine. In addition, if we go to the email stored in the Gmail server (All Mail), the attachment is not corrupted. I can access the email in the Gmail serve, find the photo file to be OK, forward it and end up with the same result - OK on the laptop, corrupted on the iPhone.
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The thesis put forth after posting this issue in a Gmail forum is that the mobile device client is the problem, since the computer based clients work fine and display the files in the messages correctly.Therefore, the mobile client concerned either isn't downloading properly or it can't display correctly.
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bd

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The command "File > Reveal in Finder" will show you the original inside the iPhoto Library, but you must not access the files this way. If you access them from other apps using the Finder, you will corrupt your library.
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When I open an event file, the photos displayed are not the actual photos. For instance, in the event "Graduation," I now have random photos of my daugher's dance recital displayed, but when I open them, the photos are indeed of graduation. So, I can't see what photos are in an event until I open each photo file There is no rhyme or reason to what photos randomly pop up on the surface, and it doesn't happen with all the files within an event, just some. Please tell me someone else has had a similar problem as it is making me feel a bit batty!

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Hey Owen,
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Hello James
Please do not be mad on me but I do not see any connection between described issue and Toshiba as notebook manufacturer.
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Here I am back 2 yrs later with the same problem that has never been solved and is only worse now. i photo continues to corrupt photos and they become only available as little thumbnails. Trying to rebuild is impossible because of individual Alert msg. that orig item cannot be found. This becomes daunting because there are probably 1200 to 1500 lost. Trying to create and populate a new library takes immense patience too because there are over 500 rolls some with only one photo in them. 2/3's of original photos are on DVD but many aren't. I use Super Duper to an external hard drive and have found out that the backup has just replicated the latest corruption every time I backup "newer files". I should mention that if I ever search via spotlight or search window in iphoto6 for a photo that has been corrupted that once it starts it makes me go through individually searching for every photo and won't let me out until I finally have to shut down the hard drive. TD was helping me b4. Anybody have any new ideas? Thanks

I'm sorry but you're not explaining how iPhoto is corrupting photos. What you're describing is how the database file is damaged and it's too long to fix?
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2. Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
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Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
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When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
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Equipment
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Here's what the corruption looks like in my Library view. Note that all of the photos are the same. I just rapid-fired a bunch of shots down the hallway to test this out.
I first noticed the corruption on the PC, pulling photos from the 32GB card. I bought a new hard drive (SSD hybrid), installed a clean version of Windows 7, and upgraded to Lightroom 5, then the 5.3 update. I re-downloaded some photos from the 32GB card, and they still show up corrupted. So here is my further testing:
I shot a series of photos like shown above on the 32GB card, downloaded them on the laptop with a new USB cable. The photos look good.
I shot a series of photos on the 4GB card, downloaded them to the laptop with the same cord, they look good.
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I created a new Lightroom Catalog on the PC and downloaded the same photos from the 4GB card and from the 32GB card on the PC and they are corrupted.
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Was this ever figured out AdamCohn? I have a very similar issue. I have actually watched two photos over the last two days become corrupt while viewing them in Lightroom. I am not suggesting LR is the cause (as I know this is almost always hardware related) but it has happened right in front of my eyes while LR is interacting with the images (I believe).
Scenario:
Images were
* Imported into LR on different days (about a week apart)
* Imported to different hard drives during import (one an SSD, another to a typical HDD)
* Behaving normally in LR until corruption (i.e. previews were built without issue, was able to develop and export images. Showed fine in Finder).
After viewing the images in Loupe view and watching them flip instantly to a visual mis-mash similar to what you showed the images were permanently screwed. The appear the same way in Finder and in Photoshop
I have not noticed any other issues in any other app or area of the system. Everying seems to be running smoothly.
Troubleshooting:
* Memory tests:
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- MemTest (as described here: MemTest for Mac OS X Tests your RAM). Ran it twice, all tests passed.
* I am running some HDD checks now, but with the two images being on two different drives I suspect the likelihood of this being a drive issue is extremely small.
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