problems parsing TIFF files

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zoranb
Nov 26, 2006
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"Could not complete your request because of a problem parsing the TIFF file" This is a message im getting when trying to open a TIF file. Is there any way i can fix this? Those TIFF files where in a HD that had problems and broke down once, but i managed to rereive some data!

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Michael_D_Sullivan
Nov 26, 2006
Try opening them and resaving in irfanview, free from <http://www.irfanview.com> .
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Chris_Cox
Nov 27, 2006
Is it just one particular TIFF file?
Or TIFF files from one particular source?

That message generally means that the TIFF is corrupt, or was written incorrectly by buggy software.

Since they came from a bad disk, I’d guess that they are corrupted.
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zoranb
Dec 3, 2006
I guess they are corrupted too, but is there a way to fix them? I mean the information is still there, those tifs have stil a file size of 30mb. I believe that using a Text, HEX, HTML & programmers editor that opens all files in a text mode, maybe one can able to edit them. If only i knew where i could find this "one" person! Anyone?
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Chris_Cox
Dec 3, 2006
Just because they have the same size, doesn’t mean that the information is intact.

Yes, I could spend a few weeks doing a reconstruction of the files, but even that isn’t likely to get most of them. (pretty close to a forensics job..)

Or you can find a hacker who knows TIFF decently to do a quick pass over them to see if any information is intact – you might get lucky.
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Dec 3, 2006
Did you try opening them in irfanview as I suggested in #1?
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zoranb
Dec 4, 2006
Yes i did try Infanview but i can only see a strange banding on the top of the piture and all else are black! Any ideas?
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Dec 4, 2006
Do a google search for tiff file repair and try some of the results. Let us know how it goes.

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