Corrupted jpeg when viewing / editing with PSP XI

[russell_b]

I'm working with PSP XI version on Windows XP machine.

I have been successfully editing many jpegs without issue, reviewing in slide show "Quick review" and doing one step correction "Quick Fix" in some cases. But now in one batch of photos whilst editing one picture an error message occurred (did not note it down) once during slide show preview; application locked; and having restarted PC / application this one file cannot be edited. Error message does not recur, Organiser tray simply shows grey box for this file.

When selecting this image in Organiser tray whole application still locks. Working with other images is fine.

Windows Explorer says that this one jpeg file is corrupt and copying and renaming does not fix.

Other preview software cannot recognise the jpeg either. Is my image lost for good?

[teknisyan]

Unfortunately, if a file gets damaged the only thing that you can do is to just retrieve a backup. hoping that the backup file is not damage either.

[russell_b]

Thanks, but I did not expect the app' to crash midway thru' editing an image. I had not made any copy yet, having deleted from camera. Thinking the file might be locked, I also deleted temporary files and versions created during the transfer from camera to PC, as part of my attempts to recover, so I don't have any backup in this case.

Seems my picture is lost for good....Might have to think about editing via a copy of the original as a standard WoW and then deleting once I'm happy my work is complete, if there's a risk I can't recover in any other way......:¬(

[wds937]

As Abiel just indicated, a corrupted .jpg is probably not recoverable.

If you want to try some last-chance efforts, make a copy or two of the file, and try one or more of the ideas below. Sometimes one program will be able to read a file when another will not. Sometimes, you might be able to read part of the file, and part of it will appear as garbage.

° Try opening the file directly in the PSP XI editor (File > Open), rather than going through the organizer.
° Depending on where you got the file, it could be improperly named. Copy the file as a .gif, a .bmp, and a .png to see if any of them work.
° See if you can display the file in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.
° Try opening the file in the Paint applet (Start > All Programs > Accessories > Paint).
° See if any web browser on your computer can open the file.
° In short, try any other application that can edit, view, or import .jpg files.

Should you find any success, then save the the file, if the application does that. Otherwise, copy the displayed image to the clipboard, using Alt/PrtScr; then paste the image from the clipboard as a new image in PSP.

If all that fails, and the picture is very important to you, there are software applications that claim to be able to recover or repair corrupted .jpg files. I have no experience with any of them, however.

[JStanley]

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[wds937]

Might have to think about editing via a copy of the original as a standard WoW and then deleting once I'm happy my work is complete, if there's a risk I can't recover in any other way.

That is a very good idea. In fact, I carry that a step further in that I don't delete the original even after I am finished working with it. That way, I can go back to it at some future point and do more or different things with that original. I mark the original as read-only to help prevent inadvertent modification.

[Kathy_9]

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Other preview software cannot recognise the jpeg either. Is my image lost for good?

Not sure which you tried but if you haven't already, you may want to try opening in Irfanview and if it works re-save it.

[EmmaW]

Some how your photos are corrupted and your lost it, but there are data recovery software for the recovery of data and files from such situations, go for Recovery fix for windows photo recovery software for the recovery of your pictures and file from hard drive, it has an user friendly interface through which you can preview your data in scan mode and then you have the choice to save all or some selective files to your location. for more details go to - http://www.photo-recovery.net

[dicksharp]

The corrupted or damaged Jpef files can be easily restored with the use of automatic Jpeg recovery software. It recovers the entire inaccessible files in very short time and without any data loss.

[hartpaul]

And if you have not reused the memory cards, sometimes you can even recover the images even though they have been deleted and the card formatted . Google for data card image recovery.

I am paranoid about losing images.
I have a number of smaller cards that will not hold a full shoot and divide it up over about 3 cards , that way if I lose a card I only lose 1/3 of the shoot.
As soon as I can I load the images into the computer, renumber and rename and organise into folders based on date in form year month date YYMMDD (C1) .
Then I copy those images to another folder on a different drive on the main computer in a folder marked for archiving(B1) . These are then copied to an external drive (B2).
Then I select out bad images and place them in an Outtakes folder and then renumber the rest and rotate them. (C1 Mod) . I copy C1 Mod to another external hard drive (C2 Mod) and then copy that to another one and place in a different location (C3 Mod) .

At this stage I still have the originall images on the card (O) , archive copy on hard drive (B1) , archive copy on External Hard drive (B2) and 3 modified copies. So a total of 6 copies of any image.

I can now delete the images from the card, the archived set from the main computer (B1) .

When processing images I copy selected ones from C1 Mod to a working folder on my desktop that I call TEMP or ZZZZWork. Both are easy to find and when working on the images I can just save rather than the longer save as save in the knowlege that if I need a rfresh image I can copy another one from C1 Mod.
Over a period of time and later shoots I will delete C1 Mod from the main computer and only have worked images there.

At this point I still have three copies of an image 1 on B2, C2 Mod and C3 Mod all in different locations so it is unlikely that the same images is likely to become corrupted on all three hard drives at the same time.
Considering cards and external hard drives have become so cheap nowdays it is easy to maintain backups and so one should never be caught short with image failure.