Trouble opening files

[Guest]

I recently had to replace my hard drive. Prior to this procedure I backed up
my photo files to CD using Roxio Creator as the burning program. When
installing everything back on to my machine and transferring my photo files
back into "My Pictures," I found that I can no longer view my pics with
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. To make matters worse, I can't view them with
the Roxio software either. Upon checking the properties of these files, it
still shows them as being jpeg files around 1. 08 Mb each in size. I read up
on the picture and fax viewer to discover that it will not be able to display
files that have been compressed. I guess Roxio compressed them during the
burning process. Does anyone know of a program or any way to handle these
files so they can once again be used? Any possibility of coverting them back?
Thanks for any input.

 

[dan]

well im in the process of trying to see if the compressing is the reason that
my pictures wont open. but the program i found is 7-zip.
http://www.patheticcockroach.com/mpam4/index.php?p=4

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

well im in the process of trying to see if the compressing is the reason that
my pictures wont open. but the program i found is 7-zip.
http://www.patheticcockroach.com/mpam4/index.php?p=4

:

If the file type is .jpg, then they aren't zipped--they are the standard
JPEG files--which are, of course, compressed--but not in a bad way. ;-)

Files compressed with zip utilities usually have the .zip type, or with
gzip utilities, .gz tupe. Occasionally you will find a .rar archive
which requires yet another utility to extract the original files.

Presumeably the viewer can't display pictures compressed in an *archive*
file format, like .zip or .gz, but it *certainly* can display pictures
in .jpg format--that's the whole purpose of a viewer.

If a .jpg viewer can't open the files, then they may be corrupted, which
is a much more serious problem, and may not be able to be corrected...

-michael

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it's seriously underused."

 

[mscotgrove]

If you would like to e-mail a file I will try and determine why it
will not open. It could be compression, or corruption on CD.

info -at - cnwrecovery.com

Regards


Michael


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