Pictures all messed up on hard drive

[Guest Rick Stem]

My wife's computers photos are all distorted looking yet everything else is

fine. I don't see a way to attach a photo to this but I can e-mail anyone

some photos to see what it's doing. Thanks in advance

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[Guest Malke]

Re: Pictures all messed up on hard drive

 

Rick Stem wrote:

> My wife's computers photos are all distorted looking yet everything else

> is

> fine. I don't see a way to attach a photo to this but I can e-mail anyone

> some photos to see what it's doing. Thanks in advance

 

What is the file extension of these pictures? The file extension is the

three letters after the "dot" in the file name. Example: mypic.jpg. If you

can't see extensions, go to Folder Options>View tab and uncheck "hide file

extensions...".

 

With what program are you trying to open the photos? How were they

created/saved? Are other image files OK or just these?

 

More details, please.

 

Malke

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[Guest Rick Stem]

Re: Pictures all messed up on hard drive

 

Most are jpg. Newer ones are OK, it seems that all before a certain date

became corrupted somehow (over a year ago). I am opening them with Windows

Picture Manager just by clicking on them. They are black when you attempt to

open them. They also appear distorted in the thumbnail view. Many were

downloaded via Canon software for my wife's camera, but were fine up until

that certain time frame when the photos appeared corrupted.

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"Malke" wrote:

> Rick Stem wrote:

> em

> > My wife's computers photos are all distorted looking yet everything else

> > is

> > fine. I don't see a way to attach a photo to this but I can e-mail anyone

> > some photos to see what it's doing. Thanks in advance

>

> What is the file extension of these pictures? The file extension is the

> three letters after the "dot" in the file name. Example: mypic.jpg. If you

> can't see extensions, go to Folder Options>View tab and uncheck "hide file

> extensions...".

>

> With what program are you trying to open the photos? How were they

> created/saved? Are other image files OK or just these?

>

> More details, please.

>

> Malke

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[Guest Malke]

Re: Pictures all messed up on hard drive

 

Rick Stem wrote:

> Most are jpg. Newer ones are OK, it seems that all before a certain date

> became corrupted somehow (over a year ago). I am opening them with

> Windows

> Picture Manager just by clicking on them. They are black when you attempt

> to

> open them. They also appear distorted in the thumbnail view. Many were

> downloaded via Canon software for my wife's camera, but were fine up until

> that certain time frame when the photos appeared corrupted.

 

I'm sorry but there's no way I can guess what happened over a year ago. If

the pictures are corrupted, delete them. There is no way to get them back

except by restoring from backup.

 

Malke

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[Guest Twayne]

Re: Pictures all messed up on hard drive

 

> Rick Stem wrote:

>

>> Most are jpg. Newer ones are OK, it seems that all before a certain

>> date became corrupted somehow (over a year ago). I am opening them

>> with Windows

>> Picture Manager just by clicking on them. They are black when you

>> attempt to

>> open them. They also appear distorted in the thumbnail view. Many

>> were downloaded via Canon software for my wife's camera, but were

>> fine up until that certain time frame when the photos appeared

>> corrupted.

>

> I'm sorry but there's no way I can guess what happened over a year

> ago. If the pictures are corrupted, delete them. There is no way to

> get them back except by restoring from backup.

>

> Malke

 

Hmm, Canon camera; mine creates strange jpg's for some reason that pic

mgr doesn't like.

 

Distortion of the thumbnail view is a bad sign. Lots of times that's a

symptom of a backup program that had problems restoring the pictures.

 

I don't remember the run down anymore, but Canon used one of the

lesser used jpg formats (there are several of them) and simple graphics

programs don't like them.

You might try the fax viewer or anything else you have that will

handle jpg's. I know XP's Paint can open jpegs; try that one too.

I'm wondering if you could find ZoomBrowser or whatever came with the

camera if it wouldn't open them and let you save them to a different

format, maybe .gif.

You could try another image editor; irfanview is good, reads most

anything, and free for the download. I use PaintShop Pro X and it'll

open them but it refuses to save in the original format; it insists on

using its current jpg format which is fine and which is the one

everything else seems to be able to read OK.

That's assuming there's anything there to save.

 

Just off the top of my head,

 

Twayne

[Guest Rick Stem]

Re: Pictures all messed up on hard drive

 

Thanks I figured I'd see if there was a way of fixing them. Initially they

were fine on the computer over year then something happened. Everything else

is stll fine that was stored on the drive since then.

 

 

Riick

 

 

 

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"Malke" wrote:

> Rick Stem wrote:

>

> > Most are jpg. Newer ones are OK, it seems that all before a certain date

> > became corrupted somehow (over a year ago). I am opening them with

> > Windows

> > Picture Manager just by clicking on them. They are black when you attempt

> > to

> > open them. They also appear distorted in the thumbnail view. Many were

> > downloaded via Canon software for my wife's camera, but were fine up until

> > that certain time frame when the photos appeared corrupted.

>

> I'm sorry but there's no way I can guess what happened over a year ago. If

> the pictures are corrupted, delete them. There is no way to get them back

> except by restoring from backup.

>

> Malke

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