Re: [Gimp-user] gimp users matter

[Burnie West <west ieee org>]

Appears you've accidentally hijacked a dispute thread - - -

On 01/04/2014 12:31 PM, Elle Stone wrote:
> On 01/04/2014 03:09 PM, Phil wrote:
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> > I have some pictures taken on an Sony DSC-W510 digital camera, and they
> > are/have become corrupted? the thumbnail shows up, in windows(win7) &
> > osx(10.6), debian 7.2 must be different as it shows the corruption up in
> > thumbnail preview, but when viewing the full picture, it only shows up a
> > corrupted view and this seems to be about 5 to 10 percent of the image
> > coming down.
>
> That's not a good sign! Is it possible that the camera card to which the files 
> were saved has some issues?
>
> Or perhaps the files were corrupted during the save process even though the 
> camera card is good? I've had this happen once or twice, but not to a whole 
> bunch of images.
>
> While you are at the command line, try converting the image to another file 
> format: "convert image.jpg image.png" If that doesn't produce a readable 
> image, probably the image really is corrupted.
>
> Often the embedded thumb(s) is/are quite large and better than nothing. If the 
> whole file can't be retrieved, if you want I can dig up the exiftool command 
> for extracting the thumb.
>
> Elle
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