Recovering Corrupt JPG File

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Major Malfunction
Dec 18, 2003
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I was cleaning out the closet the other day and came across some old, circa 1992, floppies with a program called PhotoFinish. I have no need for the program, a photo editor, but it did come with several floppies worth of JPG images, mostly photos. After copying the images to my hard drive, I used the Browser in PSCS to get an idea of what they looked like. A few, maybe 10 out of the 200, were not viewable. If I tried to open the image, I received a message that the file was "truncated or corrupt". I tried several viewers with the same result. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might recover these files?

Thanks!

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Stephan
Dec 18, 2003
"Major Malfunction" wrote in message
I was cleaning out the closet the other day and came across some old,
circa
1992, floppies with a program called PhotoFinish. I have no need for the program, a photo editor, but it did come with several floppies worth of
JPG
images, mostly photos. After copying the images to my hard drive, I used
the
Browser in PSCS to get an idea of what they looked like. A few, maybe 10
out
of the 200, were not viewable. If I tried to open the image, I received a message that the file was "truncated or corrupt". I tried several viewers with the same result. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might recover these files?

Try IrfanView (free)
http://www.irfanview.com/
It is not a picky as PS.

Stephan
MM
Major Malfunction
Dec 18, 2003
"Stephan" wrote in message
"Major Malfunction" wrote in message
I was cleaning out the closet the other day and came across some old,
circa
1992, floppies with a program called PhotoFinish. I have no need for the program, a photo editor, but it did come with several floppies worth of
JPG
images, mostly photos. After copying the images to my hard drive, I used
the
Browser in PSCS to get an idea of what they looked like. A few, maybe 10
out
of the 200, were not viewable. If I tried to open the image, I received
a
message that the file was "truncated or corrupt". I tried several
viewers
with the same result. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might recover these files?

Try IrfanView (free)
http://www.irfanview.com/
It is not a picky as PS.
Already tried it and got the same result. I was hoping if I could read it I could save the image with another name. I’ve also tried IE Explorer and some other free ware / share ware viewers. I think the age of the media I pulled the images from may be responsible for the corruption.
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mscir
Dec 18, 2003
is your photo file posted on the web anywhere for people to experiment with?

Major Malfunction wrote:

"Stephan" wrote in message

"Major Malfunction" wrote in message

I was cleaning out the closet the other day and came across some old,

circa

1992, floppies with a program called PhotoFinish. I have no need for the program, a photo editor, but it did come with several floppies worth of

JPG

images, mostly photos. After copying the images to my hard drive, I used

the

Browser in PSCS to get an idea of what they looked like. A few, maybe 10

out

of the 200, were not viewable. If I tried to open the image, I received

a

message that the file was "truncated or corrupt". I tried several

viewers

with the same result. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might recover these files?

Try IrfanView (free)
http://www.irfanview.com/
It is not a picky as PS.

Already tried it and got the same result. I was hoping if I could read it I could save the image with another name. I’ve also tried IE Explorer and some other free ware / share ware viewers. I think the age of the media I pulled the images from may be responsible for the corruption.

JC
J C
Dec 18, 2003
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:23:40 GMT, "Major Malfunction" wrote:

Already tried it and got the same result. I was hoping if I could read it I could save the image with another name. I’ve also tried IE Explorer and some other free ware / share ware viewers. I think the age of the media I pulled the images from may be responsible for the corruption.

If it is a defective disk, then running the disk through Norton Disk Doctor could work. It has save my butt plenty of times.

But I gotta say, if you’ve 200 jpgs on FLOPPY, my gut tells me that they’re really crappy anyway and probably not worth the trouble… partcularly when you could get 1000’s by buying a really cheap clip art suite.

— JC
MM
Major Malfunction
Dec 19, 2003
"J C" wrote in message
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:23:40 GMT, "Major Malfunction" wrote:

Already tried it and got the same result. I was hoping if I could read it
I
could save the image with another name. I’ve also tried IE Explorer and
some
other free ware / share ware viewers. I think the age of the media I
pulled
the images from may be responsible for the corruption.

If it is a defective disk, then running the disk through Norton Disk Doctor could work. It has save my butt plenty of times.

But I gotta say, if you’ve 200 jpgs on FLOPPY, my gut tells me that they’re really crappy anyway and probably not worth the trouble… partcularly when you could get 1000’s by buying a really cheap clip art suite.
It’s spread across three floppies. Actually, I’m not overly concerned about these, I’m just trying to enlarge the collection I have. As I first said, these are from a program I acquired in the Dark Ages of 1992 or there abouts. It’s more of a learning process to meet the challenge of trying to recover than salvaging something irreplaceable.

I’m in the process now of organizing and reviewing what I already own before I spring for another collection. I’ve got clip art going back to what came bundled with WordPerfect for Windows 3.1 plus I literally inherited another collection. Once I get this sorted out, then I’ll see if there is something I really need.

As for the Norton Disk Doctor suggestion, I don’t own that program. I’ll check TUCOWS and see if there is a similar shareware utility I can use. Don’t know why I didn’t think of that before :-{(
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Husky
Dec 19, 2003
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:33:09 GMT, "Major Malfunction" wrote:

get irfanview and view one of the images in hex view to see what type file it is. This is assuming irfanview doesn’t automatically open it as is. Then you’ll have a starting point to figuring out what type files they are. from the age it would make sense they’re gif. or something commodore. iff maybe. And www.irfanview.com can handle iff just fine.

I’m in the process now of organizing and reviewing what I already own before I spring for another collection. I’ve got clip art going back to what came bundled with WordPerfect for Windows 3.1 plus I literally inherited another collection. Once I get this sorted out, then I’ll see if there is something I really need.

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