Anyone of you has any idea how these corrupt files can be recovered. Please let me know if you know of any software that can fix these jpeg files.

I tried taking that same copied image and copy/paste it about 10 times and noticed this is an accumulative effect as more errors appear in the image.

Next I did a byte compare between the two files, both are identical sizes however there are very specific bits just obliterated with random bytes (About 100-200 bytes each time).

I next renamed the jpg files .bin files and tried the multiple copy of copy of copy again. Renamed the “Copy of Copy of Copy of A.bin” to a jpg file and sure enough it was still corrupt… now here’ the very wierd bit.
If I create a vast txt file and do the same that works perfectly 100% of the time even though it’s copying the same data??! I’m starting to think this is a virus and spoke to Norton about it. They would happily charge me £70 to try and fix it but can’t guarantee they’ll even find it.

I’ve since removed this hard drive and scanned it in two other machines running up to date virus scanning software but neither has found anything but the search continues.

This one is a doozer and I’m eager to find the cause so if anyone else gets an answer first please share it
Thanks,

I got those scrambled images in my PC too, taken with a HP PhotoSmart camera and transferred using an external 7-in-1 card reader. But look, the thumbnails look o.k., how is this possible? Does XP use different codecs for thumbnails and full-size images?

Please help. Thanks.

Perhaps youre right, a new technology, no stadarization yet, and problably small incompatibilities with the present jpeg standard. But Iam sure that if this is producing garbled images in Vista when opening jpeg files that belong to the JPEG present standard it will be corrected soon.

http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/software/graphics-and-media/news/jpeg-reinvented-better-images-smaller-files?articleid=1599935539

The URL for the site or the article about jpeg image compression is this one above:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/

It’s a very long and technical article directed for experts (which Iam not) but something can be understood after all.

Ánothe article, not so technical is in

http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/software/graphics-and-media/news/jpeg-reinvented-better-images-smaller-files?articleid=1599935539

that says literally that Microsoft already introduced its new jpeg techonlogy in Vista. You may expect to find it also in Leopard.

Something is happening, jpeg photos managed wihtout problems in win xp now are damaged in win vista. About 20% of my photos looks garbled in Vista, and they were nice in win xp.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/

Is really a technical article, quiet long to read. But you may like it. It was written by Tom Lane (tgl@netcom.com). I’m an amateur potographer and retired (65). And I would like that my grandchildren and his sons see the photos of this epoch. I have all the photos of my sons from 30 years ago in negatives. They get fungi because here is tropical island. But I clean them when trying to make prints of them. But how are we going to clean the digital fungi of scrambled digital file photos? I woul like to find a program that provides the missing data in that black horizontal bands of scrambled jpeg files. But that is magic.

I feel very sad that after working during five years with a very nice OS like win xp professioanal, the state of the art, a digital gem, the industry comes now with an unpolished rock like Vista. And you have to accept it, or don’t by the pc wich is loaded with vista. The only ones to sell pc’s without vista appers to be DELL, but I bought mine in Sams from Gateway. A wonderful machine with AMD double core 2.4 GHz processors, NVidia GeForce graphic card, 320 Mb sata drive, 22″ gateway 1680×1050 monitor, but with an unpolished OS like Vista. Suppose you are used to eat great sirloins each weekend and now you only find corn beef. The industry is a digital bastard, I mean beast.

This Os vista could be a nice upgrade for win xp with it’s transparent windows and the miriad of beautifull things it is loaded (which I personally do not use because it’s a big burden to the proccessor and memory). But the Industry is thirsty for big money and lunched a whole new OS to collect huge earnings. New peripherals are needed certified for Vista, since new drivers for old good equipment is not cost effective to re-desing (printers, scanners, webcam cameras, etc.). New sofware is needed since sofware producers have to pay the “toll” to Microsoft” or “…this program stopped working. Please connet to Internet fo find a solution…”. Or “This program (Autoca 2007) is not compatible with Vista. Please go to Office Max and buy the latest version certified for Vista, after all,it’s only a small inversion…” Oh my God,we are really in love with this stuff, or we woulk take a big hammer and end the story here. And that is the problem, the industry knows we are in love with the digital imagery…

“Recently, both Microsoft and Apple have started pushing (different ) “standard” M-JPEG formats… Both companies were… unsuccessful in getting anyone else to adopt their ideas about still-image JPEG file formats…”

More of this artcle follows:

“When transferring images between machines running different operating systems, be very careful to get a straight “binary” transfer — any sort of text format conversion will corrupt a JPEG file. Actually that’s true for all image formats not just JPEG”.
tom lane organizer, Independent JPEG Group tgl@netcom.com or tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us

This article from the Independent JPEG Group is very technical as it is directed to the experts, but I got some messages. My graphic files of photos are being damaged in Vista. And they were not faulty when I opened them in the usb hard drive connected to my old PC with Windows XP. Now I connect that usb drive to my brand new Gateway pc with double core processor and 3 Mb of Ram with Win Vista OS, and about 20% of them looks scrambled. Fortunately I have backup of them performed with wind xp.

I am still after the causes of “graphic image scrambling” when switching from win xp to window vista. If I never find the culprit, like “using usb drives may lead to images erros, or using bad RAM” as reported by Proffesional and Greg above,or new propietary Mac or Microsoft jpeg decoding sofware, I wont feel as sad as thinking as follow: If 3 years old images managed with win xp are now faulty when managed with win vista, think about ten or twenty years ahead with the new OS´s and new technology that lies in the future. All collections of master digital files of photos may be unrecognizable by the future OS´s and will be lost forever unless they have being printed in good photo paper and kept very secure from ultraviolet sun ligh. Let ask our dear Ansel Adams what would he do to keep his valuable collections if he lives in the present technology time of digital imagery. ???????