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26-Aug-2003, 11:23 PM #1
Exclamation Corrupted JPEG Pictures
Hi,

I have a Sony Mavica Digital Camera (Burns pics directly to mini CD-R/W, no flash memory slots). In an accident some of the film/dye near the outer rim of a CD-R got scratched off. Of course some data was lost, but the inner 2/3 of the CD was not damaged. I used BadCopy (a data recovery program) to recover many of these pictures.

Now I have a folder full of recovered pictures, but every single one is messed up. The thumbnails are fine, but when I open the file, parts of the image are shifted around and colors distorted. For example:

http://68.41.33.79/File35.JPG
http://68.41.33.79/File87.JPG
(sorry for the long downloads, but image info was lost when I tried resized it)

The top 2/3 of each picture was fine, bottom 1/3 seems to be shifted left a little, then the part cut out warps around to the right. Every recovered picture had similar problems.

Any ideas?? Thumbnails are fine for some reason.

Appreciate your help,
-Dan

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26-Aug-2003, 11:49 PM #2
Can't get to the posted links. post one here from your Hard drive and we'll take a look ...Rhett
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27-Aug-2003, 12:13 AM #3
Thanks for the notice, its fixed now
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27-Aug-2003, 03:03 AM #4
DPanMan, i would like to know how you fixed your files!
please post and let me know....
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27-Aug-2003, 04:59 AM #5
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Originally posted by Kerri Ann:
DPanMan, i would like to know how you fixed your files!
please post and let me know....
Just guessing but..I think he fixed the link not the pictures
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27-Aug-2003, 05:23 AM #6
Here's one of them sized for the dial-upers
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27-Aug-2003, 11:06 AM #7
The only thing I could suggest would be to open them in different viewers. www.irfanview.com is a must have if you aren’t already using it. And http://home.pacbell.net/michal_k/exif_v.html has some features Irfanview doesn’t.

Confirm you didn’t have the LoveBug worm and have done a current virus scan. It damages jpg files.
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27-Aug-2003, 11:51 AM #8
Yeah, I mean't i fixed the link, not the problem yet.

I tried many different viewers, all the same problem (But in all of them thumbnails work fine!?!). I'm sure I don't have a virus - I have antivirus software, and only the files in this folder are messed up. These pictures were recovered from an already damaged CD-R, so some data might have been lost or shifted around.

Strangely, notice each picture is complete (does not contain parts of other pictures), but is shifted around within itself. The top 2/3 is always normal for some reason (Different amounts of the top portion is normal on different pictures).
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27-Aug-2003, 12:01 PM #9
Never seen one like that...
But thought I'd take a stab at fixing it
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27-Aug-2003, 12:23 PM #10
Sure, that works, but notice how on the right part the colors in the tree don't match, and anyways I have more than a hundred of these so I could spend half a day fixing them to become imitations of the original.

Its strange how the bottom 1/3 gets messed up every time isn't it...

Thanks for the replies
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27-Aug-2003, 04:28 PM #11
nice job Rhett

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27-Aug-2003, 08:51 PM #12
badcopy pro will be my last choice if i ever wind up with corrupted files- this is the second time ive seen something like this.
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27-Aug-2003, 11:37 PM #13
What are some alternatives to BadCopy Pro?
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