jpeg images corrupt after moving

[Guest]

Recently, I have tried to consolodate all of my photos into my "my photos"
folder. In doing so, some of them became corrupted. The move consisted of
opening a folder... selected all the images to move... and dragging them to
the new folder. Once in the new folder, I would notice that a few of them no
longer had a thumbnail. When I clicked on these it said "No preview
available." Well, I figured it was probably fixable, but when I looked at
the binary data inside the file I saw this:

LEGACY_WMDM_PMSP_SERVICE\0000Root\LEGACY_WMIAPSRV\0000Root\LEGACY_WSCSVC\0000Root\LEGACY_WUAUSERV\0000Root\LEGACY_WZCSVC\0000Root\MEDIA\MS_MMACMRoot\MEDIA\MS_MMDRVRoot\MEDIA\MS_MMMCIRoot\MEDIA\MS_MMVCDR

This had NULL characters between each letter and went on for a long time,
and then had other data. The file size of the moved file was the same as the
original.

I thought that when moving a file from one directory to another, the link is
just changed to point from the new directory (or something like that). The
file isn't copied, so why would its content get changed?!?

Any idea what this could be? I figure that the pics I lost are gone, but I
don't want this to happen again!

 

[Guest]

After thinking about this more... I don't think moving the files had anything
to do with it. I think I just noticed it after moving the files becuase the
Thumbs.db file in the original directory had the thumbnail, but when I moved
it and it tried to generate a new thumbnail it couldn't. Well, the image
must have become corrupt some time after I created it and before I moved it.
Last week, I actually ran CheckDisk which "corrected" a bunch of things. It
would be my guess that this is when the files became corrupt.

 

[Daniel]

Did you do a MOVE or did you COPY those photos? It is better to just copy
photos or data to another source. And when you are sure you have all the
files safely transported, then you can delete them from the source. Believe
me, I learned long ago things can happen when MOVING files from one place
to another. Just a thought.....

Dan