Re: corrupted photos

I too have a ton of [priceless] .JPG files that have mysteriously become
corrupt (I get a "can't determine type" error every time I try to open them
(using Microsoft Photo Editor and Windows Photo Gallery). MS Paint reported
"Paint cannot read this file. This is not a valid bitmap file, or its
format is not currently supported." ACDSee Photo Manager 10 gave no error;
it simply displayed a blank window when I tried to open/view any of the
corrupt files. I tried PixRecovery but it reported "no data to recover
detected" on all attempts. Anyone had success with any other recovery
programs? Thanks.

"John Inzer" <oobie@doobie.xyz> wrote in message
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lansdryman wrote:
> I'm at my wit's end. Several(in the hundreds) of my photos have
> corrupted. Some of them I can see the thumbnail and some I can't.
> Regardless, whenever I try to open them I get the error "cannot
> determine type." I can't copy, move or delete them. My virus scanner
> even won't scan them saying that windows has locked the file. Anytime
> I try any action at all with them, I get the error message. "Cannot
> perform this action. Windows has locked the file" When I pull up the
> properties of the pictures, everything looks normal except one thing.
> The modified date of the picture is a date before the picture was
> even created. Example "created 10-10-07" "modified 9-17-07" Each and
> every one of the photos affected are the same date situation, but not
> identical dates. There are clusters of the bad pictures together and
> also spread out in many different folders and there really is no
> discernable pattern. I've tried safe mode and still the same thing, I
> can't copy, move or delete them at all. No I can't burn them either.
> I've also phyiscally removed the hard drive from the computer and put
> into a USB enclosure, connected it to another computer and tried to
> open the pictures- same thing, can't copy, move, open or even delete.
> There are a lot of irreplaceable pictures that I would love to be
> able to salvage. It looks like a registry problem has occured. Other
> than this wonderful picnic, the computer is running fine. Any help
> would be appreciated.
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I don't know if the following links will solve the
problem but maybe they will offer some ideas.

Good luck.

Repair image file type associations in Windows XP
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/imgassofix.htm

Windows® XP File Association Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

PC Inspector File Recovery
http://tinyurl.com/70lc

PixRecovery
http://www.officerecovery.com/pixrecovery/

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