A friend called asking for help with the digital photos on his PC. Some of the images have been on his PC for a eyar or two and have worked just fine. Others were recently downloaded from his Sony cybershot.
He has had some PC trouble recently and as a result installed what appears to be a second instance of XP on his PC. The first instance of XP no longer works, that is why he installed another instance. Now he goes to open his images and the weirdness begins. He can view them in thumbnail view in the folder, they appear whole. However, if he clicks on them he gets various messages depending on the file association. For instance in Paint, the error says "Draw Failure", Other programs show the file path and file error. If I try to open the images in IE about a 1/4 inch of the photo displays from the top down. The rest of the image fails. He copied the images to a cd and brought them to work. Same failures. We loaded new images on his PC and they open fine. It seems as though something has attacked all of his JPG files and destroyed them. I've asked him to update his virus software and try running it. But I am out of ideas. Anyone run into anything like this? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:204456 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
