I have a jpg that looks fine when viewing as a thumbnail in "My Pictures" but is chopped off when I try to open it in 5 different programs. Any suggestions?

5/22/2006 11:12:59 AM

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5/22/2006 11:25:04 AM

Take screenshots of both so we can see what you're talking about. Also, try rightclicking on the thumbnail using the refresh thumbnail option.

5/22/2006 11:27:53 AM

i've seen this happen before

it's silly

5/22/2006 11:30:36 AM

Darkone, If I do that then the thumbnail is now chopped off. I am not sure how screenshots would help, but I can send anyone the picture if they are willing to spend some time one it. My cousin's first child was born a few days ago and somehow all his pics got corrupt. Anyways, I would really appreciate it if anyone can help me.

5/22/2006 11:34:42 AM

I don't know how you pictures got messed up. They were probably edited in some way through what ever software you were using to view the pictures. All I can really say is that the pictures didn't change themselves. The fact that the thumbnails didn't match the changed pictures tells me that whatever happened occured recently. Also, unless you have other copies of these pics you probably aren't going to be able to get them back the way they were.

5/22/2006 11:44:14 AM

yep, picture has been corrupted

5/22/2006 11:57:06 AM

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"The fact that the thumbnails didn't match the changed pictures tells me that whatever happened occured recently."

My cousin just sent me the pic. The thumbnail looks fine but the pic is chopped off when it is open. It's not like the thumbnail image is cached on my pc or something.

5/22/2006 12:10:49 PM

try saving it as a different file type and opening it again

then probably try saving it as another file type

its stupid but i works when im going from solidworks to ProE to mastercam

5/22/2006 12:13:10 PM

^^ The thumbnail is cached on your PC. When you got the pics from your cousin and put them on your computer, did they always look fucked up? Did your cousin have fucked up pics? How did you transfer the pics?

5/22/2006 12:27:32 PM

How would the "real" image be cached on my computer?

Yes, the pictures always looked fucked up when opening them in a viewer. They always look fine in windows explorer thumbnail view. This goes for any computer they are viewed on, including my cousins. He has some type of card reader he used to get them on his computer. They are no longer showing up on his camera memory card.

5/22/2006 12:30:40 PM

Windows caches thumbnails. Therefore, you either got your cousin's thumbnails or your images didn't start out messed up. Are your cousin's copies messed up?

5/22/2006 12:34:42 PM

His copies are messed up. They were messed up when I received them, so yes, they started out messed up. I tried saving different formats as earlier suggested, but no luck.

5/22/2006 12:47:44 PM

Doesn't windows use a "Thumbs.db" file to store thumbnail info? You can see it by going to Tools->Folder Options->View->Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files". I think that is used as a thumbnail cache file so windows doesn't have to re-create the thumbnails every time you access a folder. Maybe it is pulling that cache file from a time when the image was not corrupt.

5/22/2006 1:01:23 PM

It does, but how can it cache a good image when it was already corrupted when he sent it to me.

5/22/2006 1:09:03 PM

^^ It seems that he's saying that they've always been messed up. When he refreshed the thumbnails, they started showing the messed up pic. What I can't figure out is where the good thumbnails came from. The only explination is that the pictures weren't always messed up.

^same here

[Edited on May 22, 2006 at 1:10 PM. Reason : not enough ^s]

5/22/2006 1:09:46 PM

How did he send you the pictures? If he sent it in a zip file then the Thumbs.db file could have been picked up. This scenario could happen where the image was fine, Thumbs.db was created, the image became corrupted, and the images got zipped up and sent before Thumbs.db had a chance to update the broken image.

Just a guess.

5/22/2006 1:18:24 PM

He sent the image to me as an attachment in an e-mail.

5/22/2006 1:24:10 PM

Oh, probably not that then.

5/22/2006 1:31:34 PM

Anyone else?

5/23/2006 2:04:32 PM

they're fucked up. they were fucked up before you got them, they're fucked up on his end. wtf do you want anybody to do?

magically fix a corrupted 3rd party picture?

5/23/2006 2:17:04 PM

If it is corrupted then why does the thumbnail look fine?

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"wtf do you want anybody to do? magically fix a corrupted 3rd party picture?"

Yes, I would actually love for that.

5/23/2006 3:17:58 PM

well it's a wish in one hand and a shit in the other...

5/23/2006 3:37:06 PM

^^ I thought that you said that the thumbnail was also corrupted one you refreshed the thumbnail?

5/23/2006 4:18:10 PM

yeah, but it is fine when I first get it

5/23/2006 5:04:48 PM