Can't rotate pictures in folders under my pictures

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nojetlag

Suddenly I'm no more able to rotate pictures that I did save under My
Pictures.
I transfered the files with the WinXP Wizard from my SD Card.
When I try it within Windows Picture and Fax Viewer I get the Message:
"Because this image is read-only, the rotated version cannot be saved
using
the same file name. To save it, click Copy To and give it a new file
name".

I did check the file attributes via properties and the pic is NOT read
only. When
I try the same with Digital Image Suite 2006 Library, it tells me there
is not enought disk space. (Well having 7.5 GB free, might be not much,
but should be ok for rotating a picture no ?).

This get's pretty annoying, anybody ran into this before ?

best regards
andreas
 
nojetlag said:
Suddenly I'm no more able to rotate pictures that I did
save under My Pictures.
I transfered the files with the WinXP Wizard from my SD
Card.
When I try it within Windows Picture and Fax Viewer I get
the Message: "Because this image is read-only, the
rotated version cannot be saved using
the same file name. To save it, click Copy To and give it
a new file name".

I did check the file attributes via properties and the
pic is NOT read only. When
I try the same with Digital Image Suite 2006 Library, it
tells me there is not enought disk space. (Well having
7.5 GB free, might be not much, but should be ok for
rotating a picture no ?).

This get's pretty annoying, anybody ran into this before ?

best regards
andreas
Click to expand...
================================
It sounds like your image files did not
download correctly from the memory card.

Do you have other image files saved on
your hard drive? can you rotate them?

As a test...go to the following link:
http://www.zzzdog.com/dw2/tiny bird.jpg

Right click the image and save it to your
desktop.

Now...left click the image to open it in
Windows Picture and Fax viewer and try
to rotate it. Let us know the result.

BTW, it's a good practice to keep your
hard disk 50% free. It's also important
to do regular maintenance...Disk Cleanup,
Error Checking, Defrag...

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

(315265) How to Perform Disk Error Checking
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265
(check the two boxes..."Automatically fix file
system errors" and "Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors") the utility will run
the next time you restart your computer.
(run error checking repeatedly until it finds
no errors)

(314848) How to Defragment Your Disk
Drive Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP
How to ask a newsgroup question:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
 
What type of files are you trying to rotate? JPG? TIFF? RAW? What is the
approximate file size?
Can you rename those files (from windows explorer)? Can you copy them (in
the same directory, with different name)?
Do you happen to know what file system (FAT, NTFS) you're using?

--
Eduard Koller[MS]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm


nojetlag said:
Suddenly I'm no more able to rotate pictures that I did
save under My Pictures.
I transfered the files with the WinXP Wizard from my SD
Card.
When I try it within Windows Picture and Fax Viewer I get
the Message: "Because this image is read-only, the
rotated version cannot be saved using
the same file name. To save it, click Copy To and give it
a new file name".

I did check the file attributes via properties and the
pic is NOT read only. When
I try the same with Digital Image Suite 2006 Library, it
tells me there is not enought disk space. (Well having
7.5 GB free, might be not much, but should be ok for
rotating a picture no ?).

This get's pretty annoying, anybody ran into this before ?

best regards
andreas
Click to expand...
================================
It sounds like your image files did not
download correctly from the memory card.

Do you have other image files saved on
your hard drive? can you rotate them?

As a test...go to the following link:
http://www.zzzdog.com/dw2/tiny bird.jpg

Right click the image and save it to your
desktop.

Now...left click the image to open it in
Windows Picture and Fax viewer and try
to rotate it. Let us know the result.

BTW, it's a good practice to keep your
hard disk 50% free. It's also important
to do regular maintenance...Disk Cleanup,
Error Checking, Defrag...

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

(315265) How to Perform Disk Error Checking
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265
(check the two boxes..."Automatically fix file
system errors" and "Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors") the utility will run
the next time you restart your computer.
(run error checking repeatedly until it finds
no errors)

(314848) How to Defragment Your Disk
Drive Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP
How to ask a newsgroup question:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
 
Well some pictures I can rotate, and some I can't. I did test with the
provided picture and it did work well. The pics are from a 6 MPix
camera (Pentax *ist DS) , so the aprox. size is around 2.4 - 3 MB each.
Keeping my harddisk 50% free would mean to throw away my laptop :D,
with the current tiny harddisks below 100 GB I really need all space I
can use, since I run often larger VMWare installations ;-) But i guess
Windows should also work with only 20% HD space free (at least for
rotating pictures :))
 
I also tried to rename these .jpg files, that works, but rotating
won't. :( All are transfered with the WinXP pics wizard, so if they are
not properly transfered it should be related to this wizard ?
 
Can you try to copy one of the images that won't rotate, then try to rotate
the copy?

--
Eduard Koller[MS]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm


I also tried to rename these .jpg files, that works, but rotating
won't. :( All are transfered with the WinXP pics wizard, so if they are
not properly transfered it should be related to this wizard ?
 
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