Jpg file format header

So the EXIF info is not corrupt, it's simply not there. EDIT : as the two filesizes are exactly the same, another possibility could be, that the JPG file is 'scrambled' in some way by some app with a encryption code.

I used a hex editor to copy header material from a valid jpg to pic2, and got it to open with no complaints, but it's not a picture. It may very well be scrambled. The equality of file size certainly points to that. If you could retrace the steps in the process that messed up the images, it might be possible at least to know what went wrong and avoid doing it again.

As the file is now, there seems to be no way of reclaiming it. I'm having the exact same problem as Chrispy Random pictures are not accessible on my laptop but are fine on my desktop. There does not seem to be a pattern. I'll have to try with another photo viewer and see if it's a Windows problem or an Irfanview issue.

Hi Erick,. Originally posted by Erick View Post. Before you post I have a similar problem with a seemingly png file. I recovered some jpegs from a recovered flash disk but I can not open them. If you recovered some jpegs, how did you end up with a png? Are you saying that all the files will not open that were recovered?

Can you tell us why you needed to recover and what program you used to do it? I've had a lot of luck with PhotoRec , a free file recovery program. Originally posted by Skippybox View Post. I have backed up 1, jpg files to CD for a friend using Nero 8. The only thing I can think of is that his pictures were administered by Picasa and I am wondering if this is the nub of the problem.

Have any of you who have experienced this problem also been using Picasa? Good luck. Can't open JPEG files with any program! Canon digital camera RAW file.

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MOV files have a complicated file signature. In the previous method, we had access to a healthy header file. The aforementioned steps might seem easy, but in practice, it is quite difficult to come by a good and reliable Hex editor. Image corruption issues are complicated and vary from case to case; hence every issue requires a different approach.

Hex editors are ineffective in severe JPEG corruption cases, and this demands more advanced tools such as Kernel Photo repair. It is an advanced photo repair tool that has the capability to repair all kinds of image files- inaccessible, corrupt, or lost.

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You can conveniently drag and drop files with no limitations to the file sizes. In just a few steps, you can quickly repair your damaged image files. For jpeg, 2 bytes header and 10 bytes header? What does that mean? JPEG contains 2-bytes header followed by series of frames. There can be many frames, each frame has its own header. What's the purpose of frames?

Where did you get 2 bytes header for jpeg? That says, two bytes marker. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name.