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An error message like that usually means that another process removed that file while find was walking the file hierarchy. In other words:

find used readdir() or getdents() to read a name from the directory it is processing,
another process unlinks or renames the filename just read by find, and then,
find tries to stat() the file to check the file's timestamps and gets the error you listed.

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