viewing/importing jpegs crashes program/directory

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Please help if you can, as I'm in my last few months of a 3 year university
course, and this problem is affecting my ability to produce documents.
Thanks!!

I have many jpegs in my directory, arranged in folders, sub-folders, etc.
Some are jpegs off the internet, while many are from my Fuji Finepix digital
camera. There are some picture formats (bitmaps, photoshop docs, etc) in
there too, but the vast majority are jpegs, around 400KB each in size.

During the last 2-3 weeks, whenever I try to open folders that contain
jpegs, the folder freezes while trying to display the thumbnails/lists, and
the directory just closes. Sometimes a message comes up that ends in 'memory
could not be read', or 'memory could not be written'. Sometimes it freezes so
badly that I have to reboot. Either way, Windows won't let me open the
folders containing the jpegs.

A similar problem happens when I try to import the jpegs from inside a
program, such as Microsoft Word. When I go to Import Picture>From File, and
then open a folder that contains jpegs, the program closes in an instant.

This is incredibly frsutrating as it's preventing me from working. The
problem never occured until recently. Windows has suddenly developed a
problem viewing/importing/handling jpegs, and possibly other picture formats.


I'm using Windows XP Pro, and have a good PC, still with 50GB free HDD
space, and 1MB RAM. PC is working very well apart from this.

Any suggestions or help would be VERY gratefully reeived. Thanks!! Chris.

 

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You may have a corrupted file structure causing this. To check without
doing damage try this:
In Windows Explorer create a temporary file folder in the root of the C
drive or another drive if you have more than one. You can name it anything
you want.

Right click on the directory/folder that has the images and drag the folder
name to the folder you just created. Let go of the mouse button and left
click Copy. If the copy completes without error the file structure is not
the problem and I don't know what is wrong with your system. You may try
to use the "copied" files though to see if that solves the problem.

If there is a failure of the copy you have corruption in a file, files or
folder structure. You will need to run CHKDSK in an attempt to fix the file
or folder corruption. If you have another hard drive on the
system(installed or USB), attempt to copy off as much data files as you can.
CHKDSK can very occasionally make the drive crash completely. This can be a
time consuming process since the explorer program stops copies on errors. I
use the command line with XCOPY to duplicate hard drives using codes to
continue on errors. This won't copy all the files but also won't stop when
the errors are encountered like Windows Explorer will. This command will
copy the entire drive's contents to another drive except for inuse or
corrupt files. Click Start, Run, Type CMD and press enter.

Type XCOPY C:\*.* D: /S /C /G /H /K and then press ENTER
where C:\*.* is the source drive
where D: is the target drive
/S copies all subdirectories
/C copies even if errors are encountered
/G copies encrypted files
/H copies hidden and system files
/K copies attributes

To run, right click on the drive name in Windows Explorer. Click
Properties, click the Tools tab. Click Check Now. Make sure that
Automatically fix file system errors and also Scan for and attempt recovery
of bad sectors is checked then click Start. If this drive is your boot
drive, and in certain other instances, you will receive a message stating
"The disk check could not be performed........" Click on Yes and reboot the
computer for the check and repair to be made. Since you checked the check
and repair bad sectors, this will take a long time, with larger hard drives
taking more time.