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Kinu Panda
Recently, I have ended up with damaged and/or destroyed JPEG images
due to the thumbnail icon feature and/or Photo Gallery. The condition
can be created as follows:
1. Browse to a folder containing JPEG images.
2. Do nothing... as Vista generates the thumbnails, it struggles, and
only "half" of it is created (see below).
3. When the image is opened, it is corrupted.
My understanding is that generating a thumbnail should not alter the
original image in anyway. However, a thumbnail that was generated fine
once before for an image that was fine once before...
.... yields something like this, which was formerly a perfect picture
of my wiener dog's nose: http://www.photodump.com/Anonymous/CIMG1528.html
Not sure why this is happening. I've run all sorts of hard drive
diagnostics (even though this problem affects files I view on flash
drives etc. also), virus/spyware scanners (everything clean), and yet
nothing has been found to explain this phenomenon.
At the moment I have disabled thumbnail icons in Folder Settings, and
have not had another JPEG look like this when opened. The images that
have been destroyed are, unfortunately, unrecoverable using the JPEG
repair utilities I have tried.
Has anyone seen anything similar? Any other suggestions on what I can
run? I never had this problem prior to upgrading to Vista, and am
concerned that this might lead me to "roll back". Also, if anyone can
find a JPEG utility to repair the picture of my dog in the above
picture, I would welcome advice to that end. Thanks in advance.
--Kinu Panda
due to the thumbnail icon feature and/or Photo Gallery. The condition
can be created as follows:
1. Browse to a folder containing JPEG images.
2. Do nothing... as Vista generates the thumbnails, it struggles, and
only "half" of it is created (see below).
3. When the image is opened, it is corrupted.
My understanding is that generating a thumbnail should not alter the
original image in anyway. However, a thumbnail that was generated fine
once before for an image that was fine once before...
.... yields something like this, which was formerly a perfect picture
of my wiener dog's nose: http://www.photodump.com/Anonymous/CIMG1528.html
Not sure why this is happening. I've run all sorts of hard drive
diagnostics (even though this problem affects files I view on flash
drives etc. also), virus/spyware scanners (everything clean), and yet
nothing has been found to explain this phenomenon.
At the moment I have disabled thumbnail icons in Folder Settings, and
have not had another JPEG look like this when opened. The images that
have been destroyed are, unfortunately, unrecoverable using the JPEG
repair utilities I have tried.
Has anyone seen anything similar? Any other suggestions on what I can
run? I never had this problem prior to upgrading to Vista, and am
concerned that this might lead me to "roll back". Also, if anyone can
find a JPEG utility to repair the picture of my dog in the above
picture, I would welcome advice to that end. Thanks in advance.
--Kinu Panda