Windows Photo Viewer in Win X

[ntpntpntp]

And even that hasn't worked!

Well the interesting thing is there is definitely a file there where it's showing the blank space - I can right click it and get the image details.
//gsc-3ffa.kxcdn.com/attachments/04-06-17-knockranny-horse-show-tortoise-jpg.224332/

I can even do a "save picture as" and I get a .jpg file of 227k, but it must be corrupt or something as windows says it doesn't recognise the file format.

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Yes it's corrupt data in the file. I ran a free file repair analyser over it and I can see the recovered image.


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[trammayo]

Well the interesting thing is there is definitely a file there where it's showing the blank space - I can right click it and get the image details.
//gsc-3ffa.kxcdn.com/attachments/04-06-17-knockranny-horse-show-tortoise-jpg.224332/

I can even do a "save picture as" and I get a .jpg file of 227k, but it must be corrupt or something as windows says it doesn't recognise the file format.

[edit]
Yes it's corrupt data in the file. I ran a free file repair analyser over it and I can see the recovered image.

View attachment 224337
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I must admit it was the only photo I took on that day but I wonder how it became 'corrupt'?

Mick, most posts with pics don't show (to me) the thumbnails underneath or the filenames (attached files). Is it possibly a setting somewhere that needs altering. I'm no expert, except at 'clicking' and hoping (or is that praying).

I'm even less of an expert (well I'm no expert at all). It's a PITA.

 

[ntpntpntp]

I must admit it was the only photo I took on that day but I wonder how it became 'corrupt'?

Well, is the original copy ok - you can view that at home on your PC I presume? Did you do any sort of conversion to prepare a file for upload? If the original is fine then it has to be either the conversion process or the actual process of uploading to GSC itself. The latter doesn't usually screw up files otherwise we'd all be screaming about it.

 

[James Day]

Guys I appreciate the efforts you are all going top here.

For a long time I could doctor the images for web pages and then post. Then one day, sometime after my win 10 upgrade I couldn;t. I have reset WPV as the default but I still can't post.

That is the limit of my knowldege!

James

 

[Gavin Sowry]

With the way things keep changing, half the time I don't know (or even care?) what system I'm using.
I usually just figure out how it works, and go with it. After WX though, I've ended up with two 'albums' (identical), one on Edge (that's the WX system), and one where photos have always been. Edge came with WX that my Grandson loaded, I was a bit naffed at the time, but now I've got a handle on it, I go with the flow.

Last night before nighty nights, I surrendered my pooter to Mr Gates, this morning, nothing has changed (that I can see, so far).

 

[trammayo]

Well, is the original copy ok - you can view that at home on your PC I presume? Did you do any sort of conversion to prepare a file for upload? If the original is fine then it has to be either the conversion process or the actual process of uploading to GSC itself. The latter doesn't usually screw up files otherwise we'd all be screaming about it.

I cannot remember if I altered the original jpeg (is that the right nomenclature by the way - or is it jpg?) which appears corrupt. I may have cropped it to concentrate on the large crusty creature!

Just by the way of experiment, I have copied one of my pics from yesterday...


I'm now going to go back and crop it to see if it's MS WX that's causing me grief!

 

[trammayo]

And that has worked! I'm truly baffled and exasperated - which is saying something as I don't multi-task usually.

Disregarding my flippancy (my stress reliever), all I can think of is that when I edit pics I am somehow not allowing enough time before moving on to the next pic?

This doesn't help James of course. But thanks Nick for taking the time to identify why my pic wouldn't post.

And, Gavin, I empathise with you. If it wasn't for my son, I'd be a gibbering wreck (instead of just gibbering) and the PC would be in the bog!

 

[dunnyrail]

With all the problems you guys appear to be having with Win10, may I make a sugeestion. If you use a Digi Camera for Pics, keep the originals and do not overwrite your card. In effect keep it as if it were Film and buy a new card when it is full. With the reduced cost of photography compared to the old Film and Processing costs the cost of a Card is pretty irrelivant in comparison. With my Old Slides and negs as I scan them I have a small device that loads them to SD Cards and I do the same, keeping the Card as in effect a Master. Yes I know it costs, but no corrupted images to worry about. Just remember to say no to deleting images from the Card when you load to the PC. Oh and a safe way of saving the Cards with a decent ref and index of what is on it in a book.
JonD

 

[G-force1]

I can see Mick's pics! (and no thumbnails). What ever you did today Mick, worked!

You mentioned perhaps moving on too quickly to the next photo, and that may be a causing a corruption of the file. I've had an occasional problem in the past of a pic not downloading fully (from card to P.C.), showing part pic, part major colour. I since come to think it's because I try to do something else whilst the transfer is running. I've also found it worse with WX Creators version. I wouldn't have expected a problem with a multi-processor machine, but there you go.

James, resetting to WPV will have had no effect on your photo loading, it's purely for how you see your pics.

 

[ntpntpntp]

Well I'm on Win 10 recently upgraded to the Creators Edition and having no problems at all.

I use the built-in Photos viewer / editor for cropping and enhancing.
I use Paint for things like preparing screenshots (like the one I posted last night) where I need to paste in a new image from the clipboard rather than edit an existing file.
I've also got the 3rd party Image Resizer tool installed to make that task simple to prepare a smaller copy of an existing image for upload.

Photos are uploaded to GSC and other forum sites etc. via IE 11 (not a fan of Edge).

 

[James Day]

Thanks Guys,

Trying again with Michael Rayner's image as sent to me. This is 63KB And it didn't work!

Here is one of my own:



That was 78KB and it worked! I guess the images i was trying to uplaod were faulty in some way.

Thank you all for your patience.

James

 

[Gavin Sowry]

With all the problems you guys appear to be having with Win10, may I make a sugeestion. If you use a Digi Camera for Pics, keep the originals and do not overwrite your card. In effect keep it as if it were Film and buy a new card when it is full. With the reduced cost of photography compared to the old Film and Processing costs the cost of a Card is pretty irrelivant in comparison. With my Old Slides and negs as I scan them I have a small device that loads them to SD Cards and I do the same, keeping the Card as in effect a Master. Yes I know it costs, but no corrupted images to worry about. Just remember to say no to deleting images from the Card when you load to the PC. Oh and a safe way of saving the Cards with a decent ref and index of what is on it in a book.
JonD

Very sound advice. When my computer crashed a few years ago, it took all my photo files with it. Luckily, as a matter of principle, I had not overwritten any of my SD cards.... simple, just reload them on to the computer.
Overwriting a photo file is akin to throwing away the negative just because you have an 'original' print (I hate that term.... how can something be original, if it is a copy?).

 

[trammayo]

With all the problems you guys appear to be having with Win10, may I make a sugeestion. If you use a Digi Camera for Pics, keep the originals and do not overwrite your card. In effect keep it as if it were Film and buy a new card when it is full. With the reduced cost of photography compared to the old Film and Processing costs the cost of a Card is pretty irrelivant in comparison. With my Old Slides and negs as I scan them I have a small device that loads them to SD Cards and I do the same, keeping the Card as in effect a Master. Yes I know it costs, but no corrupted images to worry about. Just remember to say no to deleting images from the Card when you load to the PC. Oh and a safe way of saving the Cards with a decent ref and index of what is on it in a book.
JonD

It sounds like a good idea but I have all mine on an external hardrive. I take a lot of pics but, as my photography skills are lacking, I tend to reject (delete) quite a lot! Even those I save are only a record and not good quality. I have never been one for 'change for changes sake' and just wish XP had continued.

I can see Mick's pics! (and no thumbnails). What ever you did today Mick, worked!

You mentioned perhaps moving on too quickly to the next photo, and that may be a causing a corruption of the file. I've had an occasional problem in the past of a pic not downloading fully (from card to P.C.), showing part pic, part major colour. I since come to think it's because I try to do something else whilst the transfer is running. I've also found it worse with WX Creators version. I wouldn't have expected a problem with a multi-processor machine, but there you go.

James, resetting to WPV will have had no effect on your photo loading, it's purely for how you see your pics.

I don't kow what I did differently - I was just to trying to illustrate my problems posting an edited pic - the exception proves the rule'?

 

[PhilP]

Could Mick's problem be the filename??
If it is 'blah'.jpg23456 (or whatever the number was), what if it is renamed to 'blah'.jpg only?? - Perhaps the forum software can't work-out it is a 'jpg' file??

 

[ntpntpntp]

Could Mick's problem be the filename??
If it is 'blah'.jpg23456 (or whatever the number was), what if it is renamed to 'blah'.jpg only?? - Perhaps the forum software can't work-out it is a 'jpg' file??

No, that seems to be the way the forum software serves images - working images hosted on GSC all have that format. I checked this when I was investating what turned out to be a corrupt file.