Jpeg Repair

[treedwal]

I have some pictures on my HD that I get the message, "Windows Photo Viewer can't open this picture because the file appears to be damaged, corrupted, or is too large." Is there anyway to fix this?

[Quantos]

What is the format of the picture, possibly a different viewer could be tried.

[Allan]

Download and install irfanview - do you still get the same message?
http://www.irfanview.com/

[treedwal]

They are JPEGs. I tried IrfanView. It will not open them. It says, "Can't read file header." Is there a fix?

[Allan]

Then the files are corrupt

[treedwal]

I reallize that they are corrupt. What I am trying find out here: Is there a fix?

[patio]

Nope...

[gramtest]

I have some pictures on my HD that I get the message, "Windows Photo Viewer can't open this picture because the file appears to be damaged, corrupted, or is too large." Is there anyway to fix this?

You can repair your corrupt or damaged Jpeg files easily with the use of contemporary jpeg recovery software. it can restore the corrupt files quickly and without any hassle.

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[Transfusion]

http://forums.techarena.in/windows-software/1061229.htm
This person has apparently gotten Paint Shop Pro v8 to repair a few corrupted JPGs...

WHAT DID WORK.

6: Paint Shop Pro (my version is v8). I opened PSP (not Photoshop)... selected the Browse option, navigated to the sub-directory that had the "recovered files".

7: I double-clicked on the image - AND IT OPENED.

8: I immediately saved the image back onto itself. (You might consider saving it somewhere else... the file I was over-writing was already a copy of the original).

9: Returning to Windows Explorer - I could now open the image with Picture and Fax Viewer.

OF COURSE... THERE ARE ALWAYS ISSUES.

10: Eventhough the image was recovered (THANK GOD AND THANK YOU PAINT SHOP PRO)... I noticed (at the bottom of every re-saved image) a grey line / bar (spanning the width of the image) about 10 pixels tall. But (for me) that was acceptible.

Hope this helps.

[Rob Pomeroy]

It's possible that the file has been given the wrong extension.  Some people for example rename "image.gif" to "image.jpg" thinking that this is all that's necessary, to convert a file.

Fortunately, it may be possible to determine what kind of an image this is.  If you open the image in notepad or some other text editor, the correct designation of the file can be seen.

GIFs tend to begin like this: "GIF89"
JPEGs will look something like this: "ÿØÿà JFIF"
PNGs start like this: "‰PNG"