Trying to Salvage Damaged JPEG Photos

If you want I'll PM you my e-mail and you can send me one. If it's just the header I may be able to correct it. If it doesn't work, nothing lost. Let me know if you want to try that.

Don't give up so easily. The photos are obviously important to you. I did pull yours up in a hex editor and although I am totally clueless when it comes to knowing what to do with them, it does appear to be missing the JFIF info that would allow a photo editor to know how to open it.

I've read many places while i was looking for help where people have recommended PhotoRescue by DataRescue. It's only $29.99 US. I can't recommended it from experience, but considering it's inexpensive it might be worth dropping the money into it to save your photos.

http://www.datarescue.com/

Scroll down to near the bottom to the "accepted solution" in this link for additional info
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Gra ... 57887.html

//Edit - If you haven't arrived from Google, the accepted solution is actually hidden. Follow the first search result in this link
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yes Gray539 please send me your email address and i will send u a picture. Thanks again Atno, i really appriciate your help. I tried data rescue and photo rescue and badcopy no luck tho

I've PM'd it to you bubs. After you send me one I'll give it a try and see what happens.

I have sent you a pic. Have you received it gray?

just curious did anyone try to open the images on a mac? I've found that my mac can frequently open image files that windows believes to be corrupted. I assume it has something to do with how the OS can figure out file types without the use of an extension.

Bubs, you must have missed my e-mail. I received the bad pic but I need a good pic from the same source that created the other one so I can get a good header. It's important that it be from the same source that made the original.

Did you get the pics fixed? I would like one. One from the external HD and one from the CD.

Of course Devilwood. Send me your email address, and Gray i will send you a new pic also

The bad pic you sent me bubs has no header at all. It's also twice the size of the good pic. If it just had a corrupted header it can be rebuilt from a good header from the same source with the hex editor, but this one is more than I can repair. If all else fails try one of the online repair services and see if they can retrieve it. Are there different pics on the HD and CD? Which one did you send me?

I sent you a pic from off my HD but the was dragged from the CD. Is there a tutorial on how to use the hex editor or something. Oh i have tried most programs jpg repair and all sorts and no of them work. Oh well. Thank you very much for trying tho.

sorry bubs,

I get a recepient not found error when I try to PM you. My email should be available anyway so I don't see any problems with putting it here. azuldemogogu@gmail.com

I'll have to check with the administrator why the PM isn't working.
I did a search and found you easily and used the select button to fill in the recepient, but no go when i hit submit.

Before a hex editor would be of any use whatsoever, you'ld want to know at least a little bit about the JPEG file format. The syntax and structure section of Wikipedias JPEG entry is a place to start.

Another useful entry is the structure and format section of the JFIF entry, which will have some usefull information about the header.

Hi
I am new here and I am having the same problem with some images (599 of them) taken at my sons wedding and I am desperate to retrieve them. When I took the pics I was able to view them on my camera. I went to a Kodak store in Cyprus to see if they would drop them down to CD for me so I could would have a free disk for the wedding day. They had no end of bother trying to do this and eventually gave me my card back and told me they had problems with their computer. I found a little back street Internet Cafe and they copied the entire card to CDs - lots of CDs - for me. I took the CD's back to the hotel and was unable to view the 599 images although the first 400 on the card and the last 3 are completely perfect. I had not emptied the card so bought another and a photographer friend tried to recover the images from the disk. He was only able to get the images which were OK and the 599 which couldn't generate a preview were still inaccessible to me. Can anyone help. I am happy to send on of the images to let you see. My camera is the new Canon EOS 550D and is an 18 megapixel camera. At one point I have the camera set to RAW and JPEG I think and then changed it to take JPG only - could that have caused the problem? Whew - this reads like War and Peace - sorry. Really hope someone can help. We can't really relive the holiday and I would be devastated if I couldn't get the pics back - yours hopefully ..............

bobdav_99, what sort of programs have you tried to open the photos with? After reading that you switched formats on your camera I have a feeling the computers you're using just haven't had any software to deal with your camera's format.

Did your camera come with any software? I would think if it did, that software would include something that can read all of the images your camera can produce.

The first thing I would try if I had one of your photos is to see if irfanview (free, been around longer than I've been a member here) is able to read it. Irfanview can read pretty much every image format I've ever heard of (and then some) and it also includes some nice batch programs for converting files to a format (jpeg perhaps in your case) you're less likely to have issues with.