I take about twenty pictures a week. I open them with Adobe Photodeluxe and save them as a JPEG. They look great. Earlier this week all the images turned into quick time pictures and I can't open them with my viewer. I used ACDSEE viewer which is the best but now it will not view all of these images. Can anyone help me with this dilemma? I want to change them back to JPEG but I don't know how?

Thanks,

Brad

-- brad wilson (jackrussel@kuentos.guam.net), August 24, 1998

Answers

Hi Brad-

How about some additional info - Mac or PC? Any clue as to software you might have installed recently? Also, can you still open the JPEGS in Photoshop, or not even there? Bottom line, the images didn't change, just something else in your computer that's making it *think* they're not JPEGS.

If this is on a Mac, you may have some disk problem that's the cause (this sort of thing has happened to me in the past, but thankfully not recently). If on a Mac, run a disk repair program (Apple's Disk First Aid if nothing else), then rebuild your desktop (hold down cmd-option while rebooting). That should fix it.

If on the PC, your "Registry" is probably clobbered, but I'm not enough of a Windows weenie to be able to offer you much guidance. How about it, all you Windows jocks (and jockettes)? Any advice?

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), August 24, 1998.

If it's a Windows machine, you probably installed something (like a Quicktime plugin for a web browser) which installed itself as the default application for files with the .JPG extension. You can fix this by hand, but I recommend you just reinstall the appliation of your choice (eg Photodeluxe) and let it change the setting back for you.

-- Ben Jackson (ben@ben.com), August 24, 1998.

Thanks for your help with the JPEG problem. I am still having the problem after re-loading the ACDSEE software. I have cleaned the registry on my machine. I use a Canon Powershot 350 to download them into a dos machine (WIN 95). I then used adobe photodeluxe to clean them up but now when I go to view them I get the error message saying.

could not open because a problem parsing the JPEG data

Is there some type of program out there to help me clean them up. I really need these images back. Thanks,

Brad Wilson

-- brad Wilson (jackrussel@kuentos.guam.net), August 25, 1998.