Corrupted files

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For some reason I am getting this error message on some of my jpg photo
files-"file is corrupted or saved under incopatible format". What has
happened and can I fix it?
 
tawjr1 said:
For some reason I am getting this error message on some of my jpg
photo files-"file is corrupted or saved under incopatible format".
What has happened and can I fix it?
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What program are you using to open the files? Try a different program and
see if you get the same results.
 
tawjr1 said:
For some reason I am getting this error message on some of my jpg photo
files-"file is corrupted or saved under incopatible format". What has
happened and can I fix it?
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www.irfanview.com

Very handy and fast little program for graphics files, load them in, save
them again and all should be fixed.

Save under a different name and compare quality with originals to see if you
need to adjust jpg settings when saving. jpg is a compromise between size
and quality.

Good luck, Charlie
 
I've used Infranview,Corel,FinePixViewer. All the same results. I took them
from my media card and of course I erased that.

Tom
 
I have the same problem now with JPG files. Doesn't matter what program and
even old files are corrupt - about 20-30% of them. No pattern on which ones
- ie. time, camera, SD card, etc. Very frustrated with this issue - no
support from HP or Windows so far. I have this figured to be a Vista
problem. Please let me know if you got it resolved on your computer. Thanks.
 
Well it could be to do with the way Vista is handling files. If you could
view them before under another OS, then it's not likely they are corrupt, or
there is such a tiny amount of corruption in them that the picture is
unaffected and some program is over zealous on handling errors. It could be
simply the way the file header is written by the program that created the
file.

If you happen to be reading these from CD, it is possible your CD is
damaged, failing, or the files were never written properly in the first
place. I have seen CDs people write that they never bothered to verify
before deleting the files from the HDD.

It can also be a chipset driver problem causing the files not to be written
properly to the HDD, though I woud expect this to affect most files on your
PC, and before too long the OS.

Try these files on another machine running Vista and see what happens.
 
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